• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    we really need to get some linguists on Lemmy because i miss communities like r/fauxnetics

    this is why they should just teach IPA in schools lol whats the point of these phonetic spellings when the point is that many dialects of english pronounce the same word differently

    OP was probably talking about /'pi.cæn/ as in “can of beans” compared to /pɪ’can/ as in “con man”. they altered “pee” even though that part sounds nearly the same! probably because a Pee Can is a funny image.