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[–] 19 points 5 months ago

I have learned the best way to remember how to spell restaurant, for me, is to pronounce the Spanish word for it, "restaurante".

If you remove the 'e' it sounds the same as it is spelled.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    2 sets of alphabets

    Today: Greek and Serbian Cyrillic

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Chinese characters have entered the chat.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's not an alphabet but sure, why not

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Dog, cat, uuhhh, big dog, no I think I already said that, uh... dog?

    Good work, time to reward myself with 2 hours of sponsored YouTube videos

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I read restiront as some word I didn't know until I read the whole meme outloud to my wife.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Here my European brain was thinking the two sets of counting and alphabet meant two counting in two different languages and systems and listing two different alphabets like Cyrillic and Greek...

    I should learn to read things through before jumping to conclusions.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    Feel the burn! Ohhh yeaaaahhh!!!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Try something new. Best brain workout.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Saying restiront to Restaurant is crazy fr. 😭

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Let’s say a squirrel, that’s a good one.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Cats Dogs Lizards Jackie Chan

    BZZZT!!

    Ohh new personal best!

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  • This is your brain on AI.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I've never understood this meme - restaurant isn't even a remotely difficult word to spell. I don't think I've genuinely ever seen anyone in the real world past first grade who misspells it.

    Why do we keep regurgitating these weird pop culture opinions with no basis?

    I put this right up there with acting like anyone has ever actually given a shit if another person eats pineapple on pizza or pretending to dislike the word "moist."

    We don't have to repeat shit just because we heard somebody else say it.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Once, while working a blue collar job, I encountered a person who didn't know the word "citrus".

    They tried sounding it out: "sigh-truss" is where they landed.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Mispronuncing words, even misspelling them, especially if they're new to you, is always entirely understandable.

    But my point isn't about people misspelling restaurant. My point is about the meme that restaurant is hard to spell. I would never judge a person in real life who struggled to spell it, that's fine. But that doesn't make it a hard to spell word, and there are a million actually hard to spell common words we don't talk about like this. It's another meaning pop culture regurgitation, and that's the point I'm making

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    [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Rest or ant
    Rest or aunt
    Rest or awnt
    Rest or ahnt
    Rest er ant
    Rest er aunt
    Rest er awnt
    Rest er ahnt
    Rest ir ant
    Rest ir aunt
    Rest ir awnt
    Rest ir ahnt
    Rest ur ant
    Rest ur aunt
    Rest ur awnt
    Rest ur ahnt
    Ressed or ant
    Ressed or aunt
    Ressed or awnt
    Ressed or ahnt
    Ressed er ant
    Ressed er aunt
    Ressed er awnt
    Ressed er ahnt
    Ressed ir ant
    Ressed ir aunt
    Ressed ir awnt
    Ressed ir ahnt
    Ressed ur ant
    Ressed ur aunt
    Ressed ur awnt
    Ressed ur ahnt

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago*

    I have learned the best way to remember how to spell restaurant, for me, is to pronounce the Spanish word for it, "restaurante".

    If you remove the 'e' it sounds the same as it is spelled.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I need a workout buddy for this

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It's funny that because I'm not a native English spelling 'restaurant' it's actually pretty easy because it's almost the same word in my first language. I do have problems remembering how to spell 'beautiful' for some reason.

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