Meter and metre both look fine but liter and litre are absolutely ridiculous no matter how you spell them. Just silly little guys. Conversely, meter and litre look much better than metre and liter, but are a forbidden pair as they come from different spelling sets. The Romeo and Juliet of the metric system, if you will.
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♯ word vomit…,light proofreading, poly! stsg childhood bsfs, implied death, aot universe lol, also suguru crushing on reader if you squint -w-
i prob won’t actually make a fic out of this BUT I am still thinking about aot! au where you and suguru and satoru are all childhood friends. satoru lives in one of the cities (probably within the most inner walls like Sina) but visits the woods/forest where you and suguru reside bc their parents know eachother.
suguru brings him along one day when coming to visit you (where you live alone with your grandmother) and satoru is a bit wary at first but he warms up to you both immediately with some help of the little goodies your grandmother bakes.
satoru considers you a sweetheart as he gets to know you, and he can tell that your grandma is where you get it from. she’s a kind-hearted, elderly lady with a sweet smile who welcomes your two best friends in with open arms. feeds them dinner (less extravagant meals than satoru is used to but the cooking is so delicious that he inhales it nonetheless), bandages their cuts or bruises if they so happen to get any while out playing with you, and considers suguru and satoru extensions of your family. she loves them like they were her own grandkids.
sometimes satoru likes to poke fun at you, mostly at suguru’s expense. like when it started to rain and your coat was at home. suguru offers you his, and though you don’t want him to get drenched, satoru reassures you that ‘oh, trust me, he doesn’t mind at all’ and you ask him what that means but he just laughs you off because suguru hit him and told him to shut up.
sometimes he and suguru go into the city to satoru’s house. you’ve been invited on more than one occasion, each time refusing because your grandma would be by herself and you cannot in good conscience travel too far with no one actively looking out for her should something happen.
on a day when they’re away, deep within the city, both boys overhear the bad news: that titans are within the walls and rampant in the particular area where suguru lives. where you live. alone, you and your frail grandmother.
suguru’s family was lucky enough to make it out alive and find shelter within the next wall. unfortunately, there’s no sight of you for weeks. gojo and geto assume the worst, that their best friend has been mindlessly devoured. that is, until suguru spots you being given rations along with the rest of the survivors.
though they’re elated to see you again, they can tell you’re…different. the light is snuffed from your eyes, you might as well be a walking corpse. suguru asks ‘how are you? is your grandmother okay?’ and judging from the way you flinch, tears welling up in your eyes, it doesn’t take a genius to assume her fate.
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How do you say worcesteershsire sauce
Idk why ur asking this but unfortunately i studied linguistics in college so im gonna send a pointlessly specific answer.
I speak general american english & i usually say it like one of these (rough IPA transcription in brackets; closest word approximation in parentheses, but this may only work to read if u also speak gen american english):
[wʊs.tr.ʃɑɪr] (wuss-ter-shire)
[wʊs.tr.ʃir] (wuss-ter-sheer)
sometimes [wɔr.tʃɛs.tr] (war-chess-ter), but I think I mainly said that as a kid? I don't think it's an uncommon pronunciation in america tho. idk i might b wrong.
I think [wɔr.tʃɛs.tr.ʃɑɪr] (war-chess-ter-shire) and [wɔr.tʃɛs.tr.ʃir] (war-chess-ter-sheer) are possible pronunciations ive heard here too
None of these are how it's pronounced in the UK, i think. iirc I think it's [wʊs.tə] (wuss-tuh). I dont know much abt british eng tho so idk.
Sauce is [sɑs] (the "a" sound in "father").
Tbh i dont eat worcestershire sauce (i dont like most condiments) so i dont really say this word often LMAO;;
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if all it takes to poison AI is frequently used typos I feel like we could do that SO easy. oh no we have to all agree on a weird language thing?? tumblr makes up a word every WEEK. I still use the word blorbo DAILY. i beleive in us
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I'm reading a superhero webnovel titled worm, and I'm in a part that's pretty sinophobic, and there's mention of characters with mandarin names:
Tōng Líng Tǎ; Shén yù
I looked it up and didn't find anything, and then I remembered that you speak mandarin. Any idea what they say in English?
OOOO I could be missing something but from what I can tell Shén yù is supposed to be like 神谕 ? Which is like an oracle, and Líng tǎ could be 灵塔 like those buddhist pagodas maybe :0 and Tōng just sounds like a regular surname :3 definitely there's a like divine, spiritual or religious theme which is common enough in chinese stuff, so I guess that's fair. I'm not sure if it would be considered problematic since I'm quite blur about this stuff but I will say it's pretty on the nose if I'm guessing the words right, like they're just nouns 😭 ANYWAYY I don't know much about names so </3
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THE. WORD. IS
PROBABLY!
NOT PROLLY!
HOLY FUCK, PEOPLE, PLEASE!
I'M BEGGING YOU. FOR THE SANITY OF THE LITERATE WORLD.
PROLLY IS NOT A WORD.
IT IS FUCKING LAZY.
YOU AREN'T PRONOUNCING IT VERBALLY.
YOU'RE WRITING IT!
YOU HAVE ZERO EXCUSE.
THERE ARE 'B's IN IT!
2 OF THEM!
PUT THE 'B's BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM, OR SO HELP ME
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