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51·2 months agoAll of the examples relate to differences in pronunciation, so the guidance in the OP is good - use your personal pronunciation. I would imagine this would be harder for non-native speakers, but fortunately there aren’t many words (that I’m aware of) that are commonly pronounced with a leading vowel sound or leading consonant sound depending of dialect.
The only example cited in this thread that most people will experience is “herb” which has large populations that pronounce it with and without a silent “h.” “History” and related words are not commonly pronounced with a silent h outside of regional dialects.
English is definitely nuts, but can you give an example of where this particular rule doesn’t apply?
Carefully read the comment you’re replying to
3·3 months agoTrue - even stranger
Strange - it seems that the NSFW tag doesn’t federate between Mbin and Lemmy?
Another day, another quirk of the Fediverse.
Did you mean to comment on this post? It’s not showing as NSFW to me
2·3 months agoBravo - very well-reasoned response.
1·5 months agoFYI - ten states (and D.C.) require employees to pay employees for mandatory jury duty. Eighteen states prohibit employers from requiring employees to use personal leave for jury duty.
1·7 months agoCan’t think about Phillies right now - too bummed
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Everyone say one nice thing about Castellanos.
I like his hair.
I thought the original post was satire - list all of the privacy issues, then throw in “Privacy <3” at the end. Seriously, almost every one of those points has a potential privacy issue.
Guess I was being too generous.
Which is great, but I’m sure your plant deionizes the water before using it in the electrolyzers, right? So the water is still being purified, just not by a public water plant.
This is not correct. All commercial electrolyzers need very pure water as a feed to the system. PEM and SOEC electrolyzers use the ultrapure (industry term) water directly, while alkaline electrolyzers combine it with potassium hydroxide. Using sea water will very quickly result in non-functional equipment.
It looks like it regularly goes on sale that cheap on Amazon, at least in my region:
I can’t tell if these crypto people (comparing the energy use of banking to Bitcoin) are dumb, or if they think everyone else is.
I guess Freud was right
Interesting - is there a point at which you’d switch to saying individual digits? Like if you’re listing eight digits of pi, is it still three point fourteen million, one hundred fifty-nine thousand, two hundred sixty-five?