the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

also not sure why it said this since we're on the latest version of waterfox. maybe it's a version or two behind firefox or something

github was bought by microsoft but it still can't recommend edge

why is it that a minor illness can leave us feeling like total garbage

What level of fluffiness are you?

i don't remember where we read it, and we aren't sure whether it's true, but we once read that the -ard ending seen in words like bastard (which hasn't been productive in centuries) has a similar meaning to the current -ass ending seen in words like smart-ass

therefore "wizard" just means "wise-ass"

dropped off our car to get some repairs done and the person who drove us home was playing fox news in the car x.x

Seems people mostly agree that the o is /oʊ/ or /oː/, but there's disagreement on whether the l is /l/ or /ɫ/. Interesting!

consider a two-headed gryphon

...that's all, just consider a two-headed gryphon. they appreciate your consideration and think you are very cute.

hmm. flying foxes.

they're cute

the worst part is there's stuff we absolutely need to do today that we can't because of this

why is it that something as simple as hay fever can leave you feeling like complete garbage

( @Terrana in particular 💚 )

I have a lot of appreciation for fluffy dragons. 💚

why do books always have a page with a bunch of numbers on it

it has the copyright info and stuff but also there's always the line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"

Despite being an international alphabet, the IPA is based on the Latin alphabet with a few Greek letters thrown in, and the majority of the Latin alphabet is pronounced in the same way it is in Romance languages. Many of its other letters are rotated versions of other Latin letters, which was a choice made to minimize the amount of additional type that would need to be made for printing presses, as you can print a ɯ by turning an m upside-down, for instance.

There's a certain logic to the choice of symbols; the aforementioned sound /ɯ/ for example (IPA transcriptions--that is, written things meant to represent sound as opposed to writing, a distinction important to linguists) is similar to /u/, and as such the symbol ⟨ɯ⟩ (angle brackets, properly ⟨⟩ but commonly <>, are used to refer to the symbol itself, as opposed to the sound it represents) is similar to ⟨u⟩.

Newly invented letters are rare, and usually represent sounds that are utterly unfamiliar to European languages, like /!/ and /ʘ/, which are almost exclusively found in the Khoisan and Bantu language families of sub-Saharan Africa.

The IPA has no uppercase letters. A few sounds, such as /ʙ/, are represented with small capitals, but ordinary capital letters are reserved for other uses; for instance, C is commonly used to mean "any consonant", V for "any vowel", N for "any nasal consonant", and so on.

For the two people who answered "What's IPA?": IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet, an alphabet designed to accurately represent the pronunciation of any spoken word in any language. It's used extensively by linguists, and is quite useful for the general public as well as it lets you learn exactly how something is pronounced without having to actually hear it.

More dictionaries should include IPA pronunciations for their entries, I think.

(by "read" here I don't mean "fluently", just "can work out what it means given time"; IPA is not meant to be something you can fluently read)

Can you read IPA?

konami used to make really good video games, it's a shame the entire company just vanished into the aether without a trace