note to myself: pet cats later.
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- The stars are all close
- The stores are all closed
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Which of these word pairs do you pronounce the same?
- Cot, caught
- Bot, bought
- Rot, wrought
- Tot, taught
- Food, feud
- Cue, coo
- Cue, kyu
- Poo, pew
- Through, threw
- Through, thru
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Which of these sound the same or rhyme?
- heard, herd
- herd, hurd
- heard, hurd
- fir, fur
- furry, hurry
- bird, burd
- fern, burn
- furry, worry
- worry, hurry
- Enroughty, Darby
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That made me realize how subtle the difference is between āfurryā and āfuryā.
Also, the ābā in āsubtleā is quite sublime.
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I notice that I say bird and fern with a British accent, and say burn and burd with a more distinctly American r, for some weird reasonā¦
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ā¦and I am not sure at all how some English words are supposed to be pronounced, because I read and write English much, much more than I speak it. 
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I clearly pronounce the āghā in caught, wrought, taught, bought yet it is still silent. In other words, the difference in my pronunciation of ābotā and āboughtā is a silent gh.
I canāt explain how that makes sense.
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My father is a lawyer (American), and he is always insisting we put double spaces after a period. No one else does that in my family. Today, he was revising something I wrote, and my mom kept saying that he couldnāt do a double space after a period, since in the rest of my writing I never did that, and she said it had to be consistent. My father kept TRYING to not do it, but he couldnāt do it because he had been doing it his whole life for some reason. Eventually my mom just gave up and rewrote everything he was trying to write.
Discourse doesnāt let you do two spaces after a period, either. Discourse censorship is a problemā¦ For example, I would include a : ( face here but discourse auto-corrects it to its STUPID 
face. THEY SHOULD MAKE IT SO THAT IF YOU WANT EMOJIS, YOU GET EMOJIS, and IF YOU WANT the text emoticons, you can ACTUALLY TYPE THEM! Iām a bit angry >:(
ā¦ it lets you type that one, I guess
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You can make text emojis by surrounding them with back-ticks :) however that also changes the font face.
Wait, so itās not like the movies where all you Europeans just speak English to each other?
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ĖD
Magic!
(I took a character called U+02D0 or the MOĀDIĀFIĀER LETĀTER TRIANGULAR COLON and then put it in bold tags, since itās a bit smaller than a real colon.)
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:)
If you are playing with tags, you can also just insert a fake tag in order to break the automatic conversion by discourse.
:<tag>)
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Looks like we found our workaround :D
If you watch movies in Germany, all Europeans speak German to each other. :P
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We tell each other apart by our accented English.
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ā¦and all Americans as well. 
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From what Iāve heard, itās anglosaxon (maybe universal?) typographical practice to have wider spaces after full stops. On typewriters, you would imitate this by double-spacing, but modern text editors on computers do that automatically.
My girlfriend works at a publishing company (the oldest still in existence!) and sees lots of weird formatting in authorsā manuscript, but she never pointed out a double-space after full stops or the lack of it to me.
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Watching a video in another language
- Plain original soundtrack
- Original + subs
- Dubbed
- It depends
- I donāt watch videos
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Oh, Iāve seen a few movies like that. But, isnāt it annoying to have the subtitles?? 
And whatās the deal with soccer? Wouldnāt it be much easier if you just used your hands?
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Hereās an open ended question. What do speakers of the languages that you are familiar with call the bird commonly known as a āturkeyā 
in English?
Iāve heard that the Turks 
call this bird a āhindiā referencing a mistaken belief that it originated from India.
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