• NigelFrobisher
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    18 hours ago

    Always wondered why Americans say “missul” instead of missile. Now I know.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      From “missile” (me-sigh-lll) to “messuhl” to “m-ssl”. Then Americans will make fun of the Brits for dropping vowels from town names.

      English has clearly evolved beyond the need for its vowels, and certainly beyond the intended goals of the Latin alphabet. How about we settle on a variant of Hangul, and as a bonus we can probably simplify it by replacing all vowels with a generic placeholder because English clearly doesn’t respect them anyway what with consistently dropping them or replacing them with schwa; when they’re actually there it’s almost systematically accent-dependent which vowel actually gets used.

      So you could write missile “me sel” and then everybody would be free to drop as many or as little vowels as they want when reading it.

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    1 day ago

    The SMAW-D and I are having an affair. We thought this would be the least traumatizing time to tell you, buddy. Here, have a Turkish delight.

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    1 day ago

    This Christmas
    I’m making up my hitlist
    Gonna check it twice
    But I don’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice
    'Cuz Christmas is cancelled
    Christmas is cancelled

    This Christmas
    I’m coming for St. Nicholas
    So say goodnight
    I don’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice
    'Cuz Christmas is cancelled
    Christmas is cancelled

  • witty_username@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Need a gif of the toy story scene where the shepherd lady kisses Woody after she remarks that they are under a mistletoe but then it cuts to the missile toad