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Y is like H. the sound the word makes is the rule…
Which becomes funnier if you say…

  • YOOnicorn, from down under
  • Unicorn, from southern england
  • EWnicorn, from northern england
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Not AN Yooni-unicorn? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I think that’s how folks here pronouce ā€œEunuchā€ā€¦ sure I can trust that source? :sweat_smile:

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There is only time in the American pronunciation that the ā€œrā€ in the word corn is silent.

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This is more of a cob on the unicorn than a unicorn on the cob…or is the unicorn ā€œWearingā€ the cob? :wink:

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Not in the south.

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Okay, question: completely cashless society - yay or nay?

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Damn, had to go through all this unicorn-y insanity :rofl:

In german, it would be ā€œIch trage mein Implantat mit Stolzā€. Quite literally, actually. Still, if you leave the ā€œpride-partā€ away, nobody would say ā€œIch trage ein Implantatā€ - the most ā€œinvasiveā€ thing you would wear in german would be glasses or a hearing aid. Instead, you would say ā€œIch habe ein Implantatā€, so, ā€œI have an implantā€. Same goes for tattoos, piercings, hairstyles etc. You would always just ā€œhaveā€ them, but you would ā€œwearā€ them with pride. Strange thing^^

To this - nay, I love the anonymity of cash^^

Isn’t a po’ 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, ā€œHere comes another poor boy looking for some food.ā€

Might sound more like, ā€œEre comes nother po boy looking fo some foodā€

I wonder what a true bostoner would say? They have the standard non-rhotic accent of ā€œpark the car on Harvard yardā€ thing that would suggest they’d drop the R in unicorn too.

Article on Boston accents

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Am I the only one that finds the thought that unicorns don’t exist but giraffe do so strange?
Like honestly what sounds more realistic, a 5 meter tall mutant horse creature who can’t drink water for too long without passing out due to it’s 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 here…

You know about the invisible pink unicorn? It exists, you just can’t see it - prove me wrong :stuck_out_tongue:

Just now reading about Giraffes, three hearts, gills?! :exploding_head:

I’m surprised it doesn’t have wings.

Maybe the giraffe should be the mythical creature

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Shhhhh don’t 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 ā€œwith prideā€ thing is what turns it a bit… it indicates you are showing something off… letting everyone see and taking pride in the fact others are ā€œbearing witness to your greatnessā€ haha… if you know what I mean. I think in the case of most chip implants that don’t have blinkies… the answer would never be ā€œwear with prideā€ā€¦ you might ā€œuse them with prideā€ or maybe even ā€œcarry them with prideā€ … thought that is getting close to ā€œwearingā€ … but you would much more likely say ā€œI take great pride in my implantsā€ or ā€œtake great pride having implantsā€ā€¦ still not ā€œwearingā€ā€¦ and when it comes to implants with blinky LEDs you might say ā€œI show off my blinkies with prideā€ … but now let’s talk about breast implants… a woman might say something like ā€œI take great pride in my breastsā€ and even omit the fact they are implants or not ā€œnaturalā€ā€¦ and this is part of the crux I think for this argument…

I think we tend to consider our augmentations as part of us and part of who we are… and this is what separates ā€œwearā€ from ā€œhaveā€ā€¦ to wear something makes it clearly separate from you… it is some auxiliary thing you don (put on) when wanted or needed, and presumably take off later… though removal is not necessarily part of it… just the idea that something you ā€œwearā€ is an forever considered an accessory… by the understanding of the term ā€œwearā€ it can never be part of you in the way an implant can be.

Let’s take for example prosthetics. People ā€œwearā€ a prosthetic arm… they have many arms… they can interchange them at will… yet to that person they feel to be part of who they are… so they use terms like ā€œI use my armā€ and ā€œi need to change my armā€ and it feels very personal to them… but I have also heard some with prosthetics say things like ā€œI think I’m going to wear my fancy arm tonightā€ā€¦ so the term ā€œwearā€ as a verb makes sense in this context, and they may even say ā€œI’m wearing my fancy arm tonightā€ā€¦ but they would not likely describe their use of prosthetics as ā€œi wear a prosthetic armā€, rather they might say ā€œi have a prosthetic armā€ or ā€œi use prostheticsā€ … but now I’m speaking for people with experiences I just don’t 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 ā€œwearsā€ vs ā€œwearingā€, and while this isn’t directly related to the personal choice to use the term ā€œwearā€ vs ā€œhaveā€, I still found this bit interesting, if not obvious;

There is a difference in connotation between ā€œis wearingā€ and ā€œwearsā€ (or ā€œcarriesā€ or anything else in a similar construction). ā€œIs wearingā€ usually means that the person is wearing that thing currently, whereas ā€œwearsā€ usually refers to a pattern of behavior. The sentence ā€œJulia wears jeansā€ means that wearing jeans is something that Julia does (sometimes, all the time, etc.). That can be made more specific, as in ā€œJulia wears jeans a lot,ā€ meaning that wearing jeans is something that Julia does often.

EDIT: … heard back from Angel Giuffria about her prosthetic and this is what she had to say…

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 aren’t something that comes on and off (in or out), I would say I have implants. I understand the vernacular ā€œwear with prideā€ but I think with implants it would be more of discuss with pride or show with pride but unless it’s something external that can’t be removed, I wouldn’t 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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