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@wallhackio right, snow. Superior, huroN, Ontario, Wrie. you don't need the mnemonic to include michigan for ovbvious reasons.

@wallhackio obviously in michigan you don't need a mnemonic because you just look out the window

@Lady in the course of the "thing" question i noticed that i don't seem to have /ɪŋ/ anywhere. /i:n/ and /ɪn/ both appear (e.g. "bean" vs. "bin"), but it seems as if with the velar it must be /i:ŋ/. curious if that is also true for you or if you have any possible counterexamples i should check

@Lady yeah that’s how i’d probably transcribe it tho phonetically-speaking i’m not sure i’m actually diphthonging it in that environment.

@Lady interesting. for me they have a mid-vowel (perhaps even a open-mid not in a diphthong), rhyming with e.g. "bang" and "bank" (which separately i am startled that people seem to transcribe the vowel in those words with /æ/)

what vowel do y'all have in thing and think?

nueve reinas really is a great movie
everyone go watch nueve reinas. you have not seen a better con artist movie.

ttrpgposting, understatement 

i think they maybe should not have gone quite so pulpy with the example settings that are going to be in in the forthcoming Questworlds supplement Worlds & Quests (which are among the games used for the running examples in the corebook)

quiz shows 

i would think that a quiz show would be one of the less momentum-based competitions

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quiz shows 

Amol is always saying at the end of University Challenge matches htat it's all about momentum, but is it really?

@wallhackio that classic theological issue, the problem of sun

el cantar de mio cid has a rlly nice rhythm to it

poképosting 

if a pokemon somehow simultaneously had every type, it would be:

  • immune to normal, fighting, poison, ground, ghost, electric, psychic, and dragon
  • take 1/16 damage from Bug and Grass
  • take 1/2 damage from Steel and Dark
  • take normal damage from Flying, Fire, Water, Ice, and Fairy
  • take double damage from Rock

ttrpgposting 

whoops tonight the players took on two independently very difficult encounters that as written in this adventure path you shouldn't have to fight both of at all (they voluntarily chose to attack the other boss who was explicitly not joining the fight after engaging the others)

three of them are KOed in the company of someone who likes to eat people and the other fled. there might need to be three new PCs?

for example in "ley" [lei] vs. "leyes" ['le.ʃes]

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i really enjoy the morphophonological alternation of orthographic final in rioplatense spanish between semivowel vs. post-alveolar sibilants

@xsssm plus there's like that whole range from like "a little steam is coming off" thru "extremely boiling" and it's a pain to tell where in that range it is and also where in that range you need to get to for whatever yr doing.

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