Oh yeah totally! That’s a much better explanation of that specific phoneme. I went for the over-simplified version that was being taught to me in middle school, where I think the assumption was mostly “we need to teach them grammatical and structural rules and not worry about natural sounding pronunciation” which probably contributes strongly to the gringo accent where vowels aren’t pronounced consistently, but shift more like they do in English, and creates mispronunciations that are so grating and confusing (especially between certain a, i, & e sounds)

Neat! I probably never would have known that if you hadn’t told me!

And then when you actually spend any time in a place where Spanish is the first language, you start to understand that, like any language, there’s the academic form (commonly taught to non-native speakers as a second or third etc. language), and then there’s the local version, complete with all the colloquialisms and slang and unique pronunciations. In Argentina, the double-L (which school taught me makes a “y” sound, “ella” being pronounced basically “ey-ya”) is commonly pronounced as more of a soft “J” sound (“ella” becomes “ey-jha”). As far as my (admittedly limited) knowledge goes, that’s really not common outside of Argentina. And then in Bolivia, especially among native descendants (Quechua and Aymara predominantly), the double-r (which school taught me is one of two conditions when you roll the R with a tongue trill) is more commonly pronounced almost like a “zh” (“herramienta” becomes “hezhamienta”). Again, not common outside of Bolivia. Spain has that classic “Barthelona” lisp, and uses the “vosotros” pronoun where most South American Spanish speakers would probably use “ustedes” (basically “y’all” vs. “esteemed plural second persons”). And that’s not even getting into which verb tenses are used most widely in different regions. There’s like 14 or 15 specific verb tenses in Spanish to English’s 7, and in school I was taught to use specific ones to communicate effectively; then I went and spent two months in Bolivia pretty much never using past perfect or predicate, instead using past imperfect for 95% of interactions, only using past perfect with other folks que hablan español como segunda lengua, or in a few very specific interactions where more detail or specificity was required than would be so in common, everyday interactions. [Edit for spelling]

Yeah umm https://lemmy.ca/post/40524583

Favorite movie I’ve never seen

Oh good I was worried it was Vimm’s

I wonder what my classic white oval sticker that says “meh” tells people about me, being the only sticker on my car

Lmao didn’t help guess I forgot a whole word

Fluoride in the water didn’t help anyone’s teeth. But your point remains valid I think

I hadn’t flown since right before quarantine dropped in the US, and flew United once last year. I was already thinking I’d stick to driving

If only it was that easy…

Only Swedish backdoor I want is…

I think that’s up to you. Does it work for you? Then yes! 😃

The only benefit this company offers with their beverages is the non-alcoholic-but-not-NA-beer tall-boy. My recovering alcoholic friend brings these to parties if he knows people will be drinking and just hold one and I’ve watched him go sober through so many situations where he’d probably have had a drink before. Not that these are the only options for that, though, obviously.

Chronic pain and non-typical sensory needs will pretty much forever keep me from marching or protesting. That and the number of times I’ve been “disrupted” or “inconvenienced” because “that’s the point of protest and if you don’t get that then you’re clearly part of the problem”, only to have nothing change in the long run after said protest, I’m not willing to put my limited physical and mental resources on the line for “maybes” and “hopefullys”.

I feel like he’ll actually be well received by other inmates if it comes to that, at least

Wow, truly a man after my own heart

Remember kids, if you see the guy who shot and killed the UCH CEO with named bullets: no you didn’t.

“Rot in poverty” -UHC policy

So I used to work in the industry, and everything you mentioned was the rhetoric used by people who only ever did the most basic surface level investigation. Now I’m not trying to say I don’t think you’ve done any research at all or anything, but I am suggesting you look further into the situation. Technically calling it “vapor” is very misleading, and now, when most vapes are disposable with no replaceable parts, and the liquid being held entirely in a wicking material rather than a tank or pod (which have their own issues, plastics being exposed to high heat, etc.), the “just replace the coil” line of operation doesn’t apply. And even when it did, most people who came to the shop I worked at would push their coils WAY past the point of safety. The last point, though, still generally holds true, IN THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. Circumstances which most casual users don’t bother maintaining. If you’re a heavy smoker, vaping is generally less harmful, and that’s about the only way that rhetoric checks out.