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[–] 89 points 3 weeks ago* (18 children)

What is going on with the t in still? It almost looks like a cross between a t and an f

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  • [–] 32 points 3 weeks ago

    I think it's a fake, but I cannot fathom why it would be. There's a tumblr post from a totally separate user with the exact same text barring the weird t, and the @randomuser profiles on twitter and bluesky don't look anything like this one

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    This is what it sounds like, apparently. Scroll down to Audio sample.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I took some time to learn a whole bunch of consonants from different West African languages for the sake of getting names right while running a D&D game. This one gave me, as a native English speaker, even more trouble than the double-articulated ones

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I frequently wind up looking up pronunciations on Wikipedia’s IPA keys just to figure out how some sounds are made, and the description for this one baffled me. I’m so glad when words have a pronunciation audit sample like this one, otherwise I’d never have figured it out

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    It’s probably some kind of bot, because the post uses the regular “t” elsewhere, and because this (scroll down to audio sample) is what that letter sounds like. No one who regularly uses the word “still” would pronounce it with that consonant.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    Wait until you mean Mx. Thorny here on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I have, and instantly thought of them while commenting lol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I haven't seen them þem in a while, are they þey still around?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    That’s a good point, I haven’t seen them either lately.

    Edit: searched for the þ symbol and found them, sxan@piefed.zip. They’re still active as of today 50 minutes ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Poor thing, they're ſtill trying to make ƒetch happen.

    Gotta respect them for sticking to their guns though. It's a shame these letters fell out of use, but I'll stick to keeping them in my AD&D world.

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