"Think of it like a dice roll: You either roll or 6, or you don't, so basically it's 50/50."
Savirius
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Brazilian Portuguese speakers change 't' and 'd' to 'ch' and 'j' respectively before 'i' and 'e' sounds. For example, the word 'de' meaning 'of/from' is pronounced more like 'juh'.
This happened in Japanese too, where the original "ti, tya, tyo" became "chi, cha, cho"! These are all types of palatalisation, which is one of the most common types of sound change across languages.
Fun fact: when the boroughs of West Ham and East Ham merged in 1965, some of the suggested names by the public included Hamstrung, Hamsandwich, Smoked Ham and Hamsweetham.
They settled on the new name Newham, which, y'know, is elegant and all, but it's disappointing once you know they could've been a sandwich.
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Which raises the question: if the point is to raise the number of active users for July, what do they plan on doing for August? Like, a slow descent from June to July to August wouldn't look great to a potential investor, but surely a steady increase to July followed by a sheer cliffface down to August would look even worse right??
The important takeaway here is that it took a long time before it was actually good. They had to try a bunch of different sorting algorithms before they found one that really worked and let you see your small subs just as much as your big ones.
It might take a while here too unfortunately.
Find a text-to-speech program that supports Australian English and get it say "queso" and "care-sore". Then compare each of those to a Spanish speaker saying "queso". Decide for yourself which one sounds more like the original.
If anyone's wondering how this "magic e" nonsense happened in the first place:
In the Middle English period, short vowels in open syllables were lengthened, so /ha.tə/ became /haː.tə/. Then, the schwa was lost, thus /haːt/. Now, the only audible distinction between hat and hate was the vowel length, and so the on the end was reanalyzed as a length marker; words that never ended with an /ə/ like whit /hwiːt/ were respelled as white to show the vowel length.
With the Great Vowel Shift, hate shifted from /haːt/ to /heːt/, and in the last couple of centuries to /heɪt/. Now, final shows a mostly-consistent transformation of the preceding vowel, perfect for flummoxing second-language learners!
Hmm, maybe if an app's creator hosted their own instance just for accounts (i.e. with no posts of its own). That way, a new user can download an app, set up an account on that app's dedicated accounts server, and start browsing all the other instances from there.
Huh, maybe your instance is defederated from kbin.social? Maybe??
I still don't fully get how it works.
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See also the Christmas carol "Joy to the world, the Lord is come."