• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    I’ll tell the agile fragile fugitive gin-drinking giraffes eating ginger ginseng to imagine gingerly using their digits to engineer a geological survey of the gist of your comment. They ate too much gingerbread and now have gingivitis, so the margins of those attracted to religion aren’t as rigid as the original origins of those of that region and we have to remain vigilant lest magic supersede logic, which of course would be terrible for legislation of the legions.

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      11 months ago

      Great.
      However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.
      They do have g-i-t sequences. So it suggests that the f makes the g pronounced like a g not a j.
      Intact, you could use examples like “digit” to argue the versioning software should be pronounced jit.

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        However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.

        So the criteria for pronunciation is other words that have the exact same letters? What does that mean for the pronunciation of “women”?

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          Women Vs world? Women Vs Woo? Women Vs work? Women Vs wonder?

          Cause the “wom” sequence would be…
          Women Vs Womb?
          Women Vs Wombat?

          The arguement is obviously nonsense.
          It’s going into syntax of words to get pronunciation, instead the acronym/name.
          Which is funny, because that’s exactly what’s happening in the gif/jif argument.

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            Not sure what you’re trying to say, but not a single one of those words pronounce the “wo” like it is in “women.”

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              Womb and women are pronounced the same (well, except the ending).
              Unless it’s a local dialect thing where “women” is pronounced “wimin”?

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                Nobody I’ve ever heard pronounces it “woo-min”, only “wimmin.” Definitely not a local dialect.

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                    Are you from PNW? I think I remember a video from reddit where someone said woo-min and a commenter said they’re from there and say it like that.