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i am curious, does anyone with some knowledge of linguistics know why it is that people with certain accents tend to put an epenthetic /s/ in the middle of the word "subtract", turning it into "substract"?

We've even seen this is writing
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when parking in a parking lot, do you

if harry is short for harold, does that mean larry is short for larold?
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it didn't mean to refer to itself in the third person but now it's just doing it more because why not
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had quite a productive week doing rather enjoyable stuff at work though so it doesn't feel super tired
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good afternoon, it's finally the weekend (for us)
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i'm going to make this a public thing actually:

please, if you ever link to a silvagunner video, *please* CW it as misinformation or something?

it's really unpleasant to be told "this is X" when it's actually Y, with no indication of anything being a joke or anything

mixing things together is good!! we like it a lot!!! but don't just *lie about what it is*, say what you've done, say "this is Y in the style of X" or something
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i like that something being a "normal" number is extremely uncommon among the numbers any average person would think of when asked to pick "just any normal number"
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it's apparently hyena appreciation day so i'm going to take a bit to appreciate Alaric and @LexYeen and @Kaffe and @hi_cial because they're good yeens
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@LexYeen wait is that true? how do epople not see through that?
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one of our favorite obscure mathematical facts has got to be that higher-dimensional spheres are pointy
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High-κ dielectrics are great, but it's a rare case we'd ever want to use anything worse than X5R (usually stick to X7R where possible), and I don't know why Z5U even exists.
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Glad to see shitposts were the exact same style and quality 124 years ago.

it was just pointed out to us that sudoku is an exercise in finding the 9-colorings of a specific graph
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then in the second game they add another monster called e
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doing any amount of math is just like playing a bad horror game where all the jumpscares are just π
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youtube.com/watch?v=KZAnUDAj94 i love how this music fakes you out with sounding like it's going to be the blandest most generic nes music ever and then turns into amazing
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