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I'm curious about this as this comes up often in reviews.

"Jimi did it so I do it" isn't a choice, but it should be.

I don’t want a pickle

yes if it works

Meh. I put Yes if it's intentional, but to be honest, it doesn't really bother me unless it's really stupid sounding. Pronunciation bothers me more... but even then... I probably prefer pronunciation that non (North Eastern (minus Boston/Rhode Island) hehe) American English speakers probably hate.

How have you BEAN?
How have you BEN?
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ujnhunter wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:03 am

How have you BEAN?
How have you BEN?
How have you BIN? <---Winner Winner!

Very Texan. Also consider if you are buying insurance in Burnet, Texas, you would be buying IN-surance in BURN-it Texas.

I remember coming home one summer and my mother told me I had a Texan drawl. I'd been down there a bit more than two months immersed in the culture. It was as close as I came to being a foreign exchange student.

Pigfarmer Jr wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:20 pm

It was as close as I came to being a foreign exchange student.

It’s like a whole nother country, as they say!

I mean, yes if it's intentional, but I also might not like it so I guess I assume you're ok with that. Why wouldn't you be? Unless you hoped I would be, in which case, uh, sorry?

I think something that bothers me more is being too slavish to a melodic rhythm at the expense of natural-sounding prosody. That always bugs me.

It's responding to old threads day! Yes, totally fine. I get particularly frustrated as an international when people tell me I'm pronouncing something incorrectly. Am I? Am I? Am I really? I mean, Taylor Swift and I pronounce "trapeze" completely differently and I've made peace with that.

jb wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:35 pm

I don’t want a pickle

I just want to ride on my motorsickle.