@wallhackio it’s actually cat-win as i pronounce it. like i assume the name edwin to be syllabified.
@wallhackio @aescling i am more than a little relieved it wasn’t offensive lol
@wallhackio @aescling i usually mentally refer to you as "catwin"
@aescling i don't play video games with sound so i don't know what its canonical cry is like but i think it doesn't make a sound. it just approaches and looms.
@Lady yeah, i've still got /i/ there.
@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/)
quiz shows
i would think that a quiz show would be one of the less momentum-based competitions
@wallhackio that classic theological issue, the problem of sun
@aescling how do you like that site in general?
@aescling fun
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