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topherclay@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.0·6 days agoThe F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.
English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.
English doesn’t have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn’t stand out to anyone because it doesn’t otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I’ve read that in Japanese the “F” in “Mount Fuji” is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.
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topherclay@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025English0·12 days agoI’ve known some old people to put their bootloops in the freezer because they think it won’t go stale as fast.
topherclay@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons0·3 months agoWhat is “The Axiom of Tyler the Creator”?
topherclay@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do I better support my trans supervisee?9·3 months agoWeirdly accusatory thing to say as an answer to a post explicitly asking which actions they should take to back up their words.
topherclay@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there any animal, closely related to humans that a human can breed with?10·5 months agoHim: “Which animals can I fuck?”
You: “This reminds me of canadian contract law. Also I can use this as an opportunity for language prescriptivism.”
It repeats. The same “have you ever read Harry Potter” is three lines from the bottom too.
It looks like it repeats every ~5.5 lines if you track the “OK, I can’t handle typing like this anymore.” which is easier to spot with the capital “OK”.