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@vaporeon_ “ä” is how they transcribe the vowel in bother and cot, typically an open back unrounded vowel (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ope fur sample audio, if you don’t know IPA) in contempurrary “general american” english

@vaporeon_ some dictionaries attest a y-less purronunciation. utterly bafflingly, the merriam-webster collegiate dictionary attests the y-less purronunciation exclusively, which is what made me make this poll

in the word “beyond”, the y

@coriander i can attest learning about the underlying mechanisms of computers does not help much with this purroblem

@hoja hi @Satsuma i am completely ignorant of the context required to understand this and i am blaming you fur bringing that to my attention

furgive me if this is too mean; i jest 

@Breakfast “i’m not becoming you!! i’m becoming even more you than you ever were!!! that’s not the same!!!!!”

@aescling I was once explaining to her the formulation of classical mechanics from Landau & Lifshitz' book and she followed along and asked engaging questions that reflected true engagement and like, girl. I spent years learning this shit, at least pretend to be struggling

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@vaporeon_ yeah, it just renders pretty small; it’s not like instances can federate their CSS rules

@vaporeon_ Cynthia is known to have trained

  • Spirotomb
  • Lucario
  • Roserade
  • Milotic
  • Gastrodon
  • Togekiss
  • Eelektross
  • Braviary
  • Glaceon (i lied! in black 2 and white 2, she has a team with glaceon on it!)
  • and, by far most famously, Garchomp
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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.