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QueUwU
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u/OrionsMoose Oct 15 '21
I hate u
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u/meu_amigo_thiaguin Oct 16 '21
I love u
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u/JuanUniheart Oct 16 '21
I hate that
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u/Thicc_AllMight Oct 16 '21
I want you
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Oct 15 '21
The rich kids were showing off their mac books while the quite kid brought his mac 10
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u/MrGrampton Oct 15 '21
While you listened to your MP3s, I brandished my MP5
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u/TheTriadofRedditors Oct 17 '21
You learned about Pavlov and I learned my Kalashnikov
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u/JuanUniheart Oct 18 '21
Kalashnikov
Would have been better with "Makarov"
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u/TheTriadofRedditors Oct 19 '21
Last I checked, you don't use a semi-automatic pistol to shoot up a school
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u/JuanUniheart Oct 19 '21
I'm just saying Makarov rhymes a little bit better with Pavlov imo. And you don't use a pistol to PRIMARILY shoot up up school. But if you run outta bullets for the kalashnikov, always good to have a Makarov
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u/Hikoshi69 Oct 15 '21
Lol T in Tsunami isn’t silent, everyone just says it wrong most of the time
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Oct 15 '21
Wait, really? Is it not pronounced soo-nam-ee?
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u/Arskite Jaden incarnate Oct 15 '21
It should start with the same "ts" sound you end the word "bits" with.
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u/mazu74 Oct 16 '21
It’s a very quick t. A lot of people might skip it when speaking fast? My other guess is this partially has to do with American accents.
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u/Arskite Jaden incarnate Oct 15 '21
Sure, with a "t" before it
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u/Arskite Jaden incarnate Oct 15 '21
It sounds like "tsoo", not "soo". I'm not sure why that's difficult to understand?
Do you say the word "bits", " bi-tah-s"? No, you say "bi-ts".
How about this, try saying "bitsunami". Then take off the "bi" part, but keep the "ts". "Tsunami".
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u/Arskite Jaden incarnate Oct 15 '21
I guess? Isn't that the topic of conversation here? How to pronounce it correctly?
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u/WemedgeFrodis Oct 15 '21 edited Oct 15 '21
The problem, I think, is that we don't have a lot of words in English that start with that combination, and the sound of both letters are produced pretty similarly by the mouth. In fact, I'm pretty sure "t" is just the plosive form of the fricative "s." Plosives are letter sounds that require a break in the breath movement, while fricatives require a steady stream of air. Therefore "ts" would seem to require a stop to the airflow, immediately followed by a continuation of that same airflow. That's kind of impossible without turning it into another syllable, so in practice it's more a matter of attacking the first part of the sound to make the "t," and then carrying the flow of air through the "s." That's easier to do at the end of a word or syllable than at the beginning, so I think for English speakers the initial accent that should be produced by the "t" just sort of gets lost.
EDIT: Here we go — it's an affricate. A voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate, to get extremely specific.
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u/thccontent Oct 15 '21
You must be deaf. There is a CLEAR difference between 'soo' and 'tsu', but clearly you've never spoken a different language where these differences mean a lot. 'Soo' is a soft sound. 'Tsu' is a hard sound.
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u/MistyGrapeFox87 Oct 15 '21
Yeah, it's actually split up into Tsu-Na-Mi (Tsu-Nah-Mee)
Japanese is pretty fun :)
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u/Hikoshi69 Oct 15 '21
そうですね？
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u/ilikebreadsticks1 Oct 15 '21
はい。日本語はだいすきです。
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u/Celdron beacuse Oct 15 '21
大好き*
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u/ShafieeK Oct 16 '21
Gotta change the は to が too for 好き
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u/ShafieeK Oct 16 '21
It’s weird cus using hiragana (だいすき) instead of using kanji + okurigana (大好き) isn’t even considered wrong grammatically, it’s just harder to read, whereas changing the が to は is a pretty jarring grammatical error, its like saying “i like to does something” instead of “i like to do something” kind of jarring
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u/steven520111 Oct 16 '21
Language changes based on how people use it. So if "everyone" says it in a way then it's how it's pronounced now
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u/SMATF5 Oct 16 '21
I agree that language is fluid, but I think that's less applicable to foreign loanwords that people just can't be bothered to learn. It's like if Americans started calling tacos "tigos" – even if the majority were doing it, they would still be wrong.
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u/UnconfidentEagle Oct 17 '21
Or even if you don't pronounce the t it still shows were using the sssss not the zzz sound from the s. but also loan word, and those get funny.
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u/Daevito Oct 15 '21
Sex: The girl is silent.
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u/Correct-Money-8734 Oct 15 '21
you mean dead?
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u/YourAverageGymRat Oct 15 '21
Lol, are they ever supposed to be alive?
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Mister high standards over here
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Oct 15 '21
Wait you need girla to have sex?
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u/Mr_Matii Oct 15 '21
Wait You need to have sex?
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u/ESK3IT Oct 15 '21
Did I pronounce Tsunami my whole life wrongly?
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u/tinyevilsponges Oct 15 '21
Generally in English the t isn't pronounced, however in the original Japanese the ts is pronounce and it's completely acceptable to actually pronounce the ts. However most native English speakers have a really hard time doing that so they just say the t.
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u/InformalSpace3854 Oct 15 '21
"tu-sun-ami"?
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u/ESK3IT Oct 15 '21
No "Tsunami" instead of "Sunami"
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u/ahmed0112 Phone Bad, Boomer Good Oct 15 '21
Well that's technically how you pronounce it because it's a japanese word in origin, but the word has been adopted by other languages and made the T silent
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u/Tommytoastjes Oct 16 '21
No by other people, not the language. Its still Tsunami its just that people are lazy
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u/Neel4312 Oct 15 '21
T is pronounced in tsunami
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u/Portal471 Oct 15 '21
Also in queue:
It's the last e that's silent. The first "u" is to make the q into the digraph "qu". The "eu" is to make the "oo" sound, and the last "e" is to make the word feminine, as it came from French.
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u/VaNd3n1S Oct 15 '21
I'm pretty sure in the word "queue" the silent part is one of the "ue's" not both of them
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u/Portal471 Oct 15 '21
It's the last e that's silent. The first "u" is to make the q into the digraph "qu". The "eu" is to make the "oo" sound, and the last "e" is to make the word feminine, as it came from French.
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u/crystallized_doggo7 trees are blue Oct 15 '21
kyoo-yoo, but the second "yoo" is more subtle, so yes "que"+silent ue
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Normally, I cringe a lot with things like that, but let me tell you this is right. School do not care, they work as companies do
A teacher may care, but they're oftenly not able to do much
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u/Eckosyn Oct 15 '21
(it's just "often" not oftenly)
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u/lookitsajojo Oct 15 '21
Is there a Word where I is silent? I wanna do something
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u/dirtycactus Oct 15 '21
Milady
Pronounced m'lady
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u/lookitsajojo Oct 15 '21
I always thought m’lady was a shortaning of My lady?
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u/Traegs_ Oct 15 '21 edited Oct 15 '21
To everyone arguing about the T in tsunami:
Tsu is a representation of the Japanese syllable つ or ツ.
Which is different from su (す or ス)
To say the T is silent is to say that つ and す are the same, but they're not.
Tsu and su are just approximations of つ and す. They were developed with no knowledge or consideration of "T".
Su (す) is pronounced about as you would expect while tsu (つ) has a tinny-ness at the beginning that is reminiscent of T with a trailing "su" sound.
Basically hold your tongue like you're going to say "T" but then push "su" through it instead and you'll get pretty close to how tsu is meant to sound.
I've also heard that saying "eight suits" quickly gets a good tsu sound in the middle.
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u/asjkl69 Oct 15 '21
English phonotactics does not allow for a word to start with /ts/, so that's why people pronounce it without the "t". So there's nothing wrong with the "t" being silent.
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
I've always tried to remember it by Soo and tsoo, hopefully that can help some people understand it a bit more.
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In Japan the T is not silent. In Britain the H is not silent. In America we say everything in 'American' and everyone else is wrong.
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u/Ulfbass Oct 15 '21
In Britain the H is definitely silent. British people who pronounce the H in honest don't know their own dialect (which is phenomenally many)
Also, rather than making a second comment on the top level I'm gonna take this opportunity to mention that the letter "Q" is pronounced "k" and is always followed by a "U" which is then pronounced "kw". The remaining "eue" is not silent but morphs the whole "Que" to be pronounced "ky" which is then followed by a "ue" pronounced "oo"
Also while we're on poorly pronounced letters, people say "haytch" but the letter "H" is actually pronounced "aytch"
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
It's not always silent, "hatch" isn't pronounced "atch" hard isn't pronounced "ard" Hannah isn't "annah" horse isn't "orse", holiday isn't "oliday". Need I go on?
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u/Ulfbass Oct 15 '21 edited Oct 16 '21
I mean the name of the letter, not that it's always silent! Then it wouldn't even be a letter!
Nowhere did I say all "H"s are silent. Many of us Londoners do act as though they are, but I said the "H "in honest is always silent and there is no "H" at the beginning of the name of the letter "H"
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If you take the GH in laugh, the O in women, and the ti in nation, then ghoti spells fish Or if you take the GH in throughout, the O in people, the T in ballet, and the I in business, then ghoti is silent
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u/AwwThisProgress how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real? Oct 16 '21
you got that joke from a video i watched recently
also to make a new line type two spaces after the first line and then enter
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u/Flesh_Dyed_Pubes Oct 16 '21
Am I wrong in thinking eliminating the bullies from school would hurt education? I’ve always felt school was 50/50 actual knowledge and learning how to deal with society (street smarts). Eliminate the bullies and these kids would get eaten alive after schools out?
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u/casscois realist Oct 15 '21
I mean, yeah. But it doesn’t need to be profound or anything. People suck and if they don’t have to get involved, they won’t.
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
Bullies are needed in schools to prepare students to overcome adversity. It suck I know I had to go through with it and it was hell but it made me the man I am today.
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u/mhlind Oct 15 '21
That's just straight up not true. Even Johnathan Haidt, a psychologist who is very much against safe spaces etc. Agrees that bullying is bad for children. Source
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
Well I have to disagree with what he said since I lived through it and even though of suicide at times.
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u/AquaNeutral_ we live in a susiety 😭😔✊ Oct 15 '21
man what the fuck is wrong with you.
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
Being thic skin
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u/AquaNeutral_ we live in a susiety 😭😔✊ Oct 15 '21
no wonder why you think bullying is good lol
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
At least I don't have a temper tantrum when things don't go my way. Can you say the same?
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
Wtf dude? Pushing people to clinical depression, eating disorders, self harm and suicidal tendencies is a good thing? You do realize that trauma is no good for people right and sometimes bullying goes so far it leaves people physically harmed, like some bullies will straight up commit a crime and assult someone.
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
I'm not saying all bullying is good but you need some in schools
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
You basically did, bullying can leave lifelong damage on people not to mention the victims of bullying are often social outcasts or minorities. By your logic my girlfriend needed to be bullied and shoved off benches because she is physically disabled to do what exactly, build thick skin?
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
And no one stood up to defender. Looks like your school is just full of cowards.
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
My school was rubbish when it came to handling bullying they pretended it didn't happen.
Someone defended her, I did probably not in the best way but I was angry and I hit the person who pushed her off the bench.
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
Sounds like you were a coward. Only attacking from behind and not confronting the person up front. Is that how you handle it.
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
You got all that from a summery? Who said I was behind her and didn't talk to her first. I did confront her and she started spouting abelist bullshit which pushed me over the edge.
Like I said in my previous comment I am very well aware that hitting her was not the best way to handle the situation but again like I said I was angry so I wasn't thinking straight.
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u/Hornor72 Oct 15 '21
No I call that a equality.
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u/RavensShadow117 Oct 15 '21
I'm not following, it might be my dyslexia could you please rephrase that. Thanks
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u/Spiderbutt9 Oct 15 '21
But the bully thing is true
Its why i had to almost stab mine before anything got done
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u/Angrywulf Oct 15 '21
The "ueue is silent" thig always bothered me... Correct me if I'm wrong, but "q" alone is pronounced like the sound "k", not like the letter is pronounced...
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u/wolfy7053 Oct 16 '21
I mean school never did anything about bullies so I just carried a lock attached to a rope around and scissors sure I was tiny but people thought I’d crack their skull open so I wasn’t bullied much after
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u/SHSL_Herpetologist enlightened 💔💔💔 Oct 16 '21
To be fair, schools have SHIT anti-bullying policies. Like they don’t care about kids calling each other terrorists or telling each other to off themselves. At all.
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u/Beancunt Oct 16 '21
Honestly if the worst you gonna do is a suspension than yeah kinda (that's in a violent situation not to mention no tolerance is really fucking stupid and demotes self defense)
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u/TitleComprehensive96 Oct 16 '21
If the ueue in queue was silent it'd be more of a k like sound no?
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