If I’m remembering correctly there is an age (younger) where we are more receptive to patterns in regards to LA, but we don’t differentiate the language received. “All” input in this stage is valid input that kid brain associates meaning to, which slowly gets weeded out (lost) if you don’t use it into adulthood. However, we are all generally speaking, on an even playing field developmentally as we age after that point in regards to learning a new language. Adults just tend to have less free time to devote to learning a new language as a young adult, etc.

I didn’t know there was an Etsy alternative yet!

Seeing this episode when it came out vs in 2023 really hit different. It never dawned on me how finely honed their comedy was that season.

Alternatively blåhaj or blaahaj.

Sounding off got a whole new meaning!

Mm they didn’t really spin it though? It’s a flat increase to 20$ with tenure tacked on, which is case by case. The person you replied to directly quoted from the article.

no no, I’m not the child of immigrants! I’m iTaLiAn AmeRiCan, gosh.

/s

This is totally normal for Walmart to look like. It’s basically a warehouse with extra steps.

It was more like “french” how Americans think french is, sadly not actual french. It was to overemphasize the starting sound, since sometimes it’s hard to isolate sounds and move them around like that (mouth position wise) when you don’t commonly have other words that start with those sounds.

Absolutely not. Am American, so I’m gonna go on a limb and assume most of my friends would also probably pronounce it similarly.

The way you say Jra-gon and Dra-gon is completely different in most accents on the West coast. I’m very confident in that.

I think the Midwest would probably say it pretty samsies because they’re not emphasizing the first letter: jRa-gun / dRa-gun or jra-Gn / dra-Gn. Probably gets lost in the sauce a little.

Idk about East Coast, but tbh it probably is closer to Midwesterners dropping consonants and shit so who knows.

Pretend like you’re french: j’ragon. It’s the second G in garage or however you would say au jou sauce.

eta: if you’re pronouncing dragon and jragon the same, I’m really concerned and alarmed.

the soft d? It’s not hard imo, as a non-native. I understand language is mostly muscle memory/training but really it’s just learning how to use the … back? of your throat and tongue to make the right sounds with danish. Most of it requires your tongue to be flat or throat open to some degree.

This all sounds very sexual but I do truly mean it LOL

Maybe because half of Arizona got turned into fucking cow “pastures” and alfalfa farms for some stupid reason.

That’s the most frustrating part about Danish/English. Does saying the wrong article break communication? no, most people won’t notice unless you really linger on it or point it out (you probably wouldn’t hear it half the time in Danish anyways). Does it look fucking stupid and wrong when you write it? yes 🙃

You mean there was only 1 kid who was “out”

It was pretty fucking awful. But also the books really lost me around the 3rd/4th soooo xD

Does yours cycle through YT bitching about AdBlock to being fine? We have chrome + ubo on the Mac without AdBlock issues but Firefox + ubo will periodically shit the bed and it’s mildly annoying

The weird fleshtube finger, finger thumb, or the proportionally child sized face didn’t raise any alarms first?

As someone who is an artist, I don’t dream at all 😂 or at least nothing significant enough to remember.

Honestly it might have been more convincing than Bran.