Y is like H. the sound the word makes is the ruleā¦
Which becomes funnier if you sayā¦
- YOOnicorn, from down under
- Unicorn, from southern england
- EWnicorn, from northern england
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Not AN Yooni-unicorn? 
I think thatās how folks here pronouce āEunuchāā¦ sure I can trust that source? 
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There is only time in the American pronunciation that the ārā in the word corn is silent.
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This is more of a cob on the unicorn than a unicorn on the cobā¦or is the unicorn āWearingā the cob? 
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Not in the south.
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Okay, question: completely cashless society - yay or nay?
Damn, had to go through all this unicorn-y insanity 
In german, it would be āIch trage mein Implantat mit Stolzā. Quite literally, actually. Still, if you leave the āpride-partā away, nobody would say āIch trage ein Implantatā - the most āinvasiveā thing you would wear in german would be glasses or a hearing aid. Instead, you would say āIch habe ein Implantatā, so, āI have an implantā. Same goes for tattoos, piercings, hairstyles etc. You would always just āhaveā them, but you would āwearā them with pride. Strange thing^^
To this - nay, I love the anonymity of cash^^
Isnāt a poā boy technically a rewritten version of a dropped R in English?
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Kinda, I think it was based on an accent.
Like, imagine a deep southern draw saying, āHere comes another poor boy looking for some food.ā
Might sound more like, āEre comes nother po boy looking fo some foodā
I wonder what a true bostoner would say? They have the standard non-rhotic accent of āpark the car on Harvard yardā thing that would suggest theyād drop the R in unicorn too.
Am I the only one that finds the thought that unicorns donāt exist but giraffe do so strange?
Like honestly what sounds more realistic, a 5 meter tall mutant horse creature who canāt drink water for too long without passing out due to itās height, or a horse with a horn.
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Not to mention the fact that we already have one-horned creatures with the narwhal and the rhino.
Fighting with a horn seems a lot more realistic than when two giraffes fight by smacking their heads and necks together incredibly violently.
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You risk hurting my feelings hereā¦
You know about the invisible pink unicorn? It exists, you just canāt see it - prove me wrong 
Just now reading about Giraffes, three hearts, gills?! 
Iām surprised it doesnāt have wings.
Maybe the giraffe should be the mythical creature
Shhhhh donāt let the government find out we released them.
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Boil the liver and bone marrow to see god, it has plenty of DMT.
To bad I never could, I would feel absolutely terrible for killing one.
the āwith prideā thing is what turns it a bitā¦ it indicates you are showing something offā¦ letting everyone see and taking pride in the fact others are ābearing witness to your greatnessā hahaā¦ if you know what I mean. I think in the case of most chip implants that donāt have blinkiesā¦ the answer would never be āwear with prideāā¦ you might āuse them with prideā or maybe even ācarry them with prideā ā¦ thought that is getting close to āwearingā ā¦ but you would much more likely say āI take great pride in my implantsā or ātake great pride having implantsāā¦ still not āwearingāā¦ and when it comes to implants with blinky LEDs you might say āI show off my blinkies with prideā ā¦ but now letās talk about breast implantsā¦ a woman might say something like āI take great pride in my breastsā and even omit the fact they are implants or not ānaturalāā¦ and this is part of the crux I think for this argumentā¦
I think we tend to consider our augmentations as part of us and part of who we areā¦ and this is what separates āwearā from āhaveāā¦ to wear something makes it clearly separate from youā¦ it is some auxiliary thing you don (put on) when wanted or needed, and presumably take off laterā¦ though removal is not necessarily part of itā¦ just the idea that something you āwearā is an forever considered an accessoryā¦ by the understanding of the term āwearā it can never be part of you in the way an implant can be.
Letās take for example prosthetics. People āwearā a prosthetic armā¦ they have many armsā¦ they can interchange them at willā¦ yet to that person they feel to be part of who they areā¦ so they use terms like āI use my armā and āi need to change my armā and it feels very personal to themā¦ but I have also heard some with prosthetics say things like āI think Iām going to wear my fancy arm tonightāā¦ so the term āwearā as a verb makes sense in this context, and they may even say āIām wearing my fancy arm tonightāā¦ but they would not likely describe their use of prosthetics as āi wear a prosthetic armā, rather they might say āi have a prosthetic armā or āi use prostheticsā ā¦ but now Iām speaking for people with experiences I just donāt have so I will link some I know to this post to get their thoughts on the subject.
Anyway, I looked this up for the term āwearsā vs āwearingā, and while this isnāt directly related to the personal choice to use the term āwearā vs āhaveā, I still found this bit interesting, if not obvious;
There is a difference in connotation between āis wearingā and āwearsā (or ācarriesā or anything else in a similar construction). āIs wearingā usually means that the person is wearing that thing currently, whereas āwearsā usually refers to a pattern of behavior. The sentence āJulia wears jeansā means that wearing jeans is something that Julia does (sometimes, all the time, etc.). That can be made more specific, as in āJulia wears jeans a lot,ā meaning that wearing jeans is something that Julia does often.
EDIT: ā¦ heard back from Angel Giuffria about her prosthetic and this is what she had to sayā¦
What you wrote feels real to me! as a person with a prosthetic device and implants because my arm can come on and off there have been times where I have referred to it as wearing my arm or arms even though it does feel very personal and a part of me but because my implants arenāt something that comes on and off (in or out), I would say I have implants. I understand the vernacular āwear with prideā but I think with implants it would be more of discuss with pride or show with pride but unless itās something external that canāt be removed, I wouldnāt think of it that way. interesting discussion!
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Anybody else watching the crazy shit happening on Wall Street right now?
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