@whoisashygirl Most likely won’t get more friendly without one or both of moderation or others (like you) speaking out against it.
@nitinkhanna The days before the Mac was “that thing you need to make the mobile apps”.
/@jextxadore
@variablepulserate Not particularly. St. Louis, Missouri area (midwestern US) in a suburban community. Had a lot of rural, Southern Missouri family, though.
@variablepulserate Yeah. I “hear” the T, but I’m not pronouncing it normally. If speaking carefully, though, I will. It’s like a “ghost” T.
Re: I/E, I wonder if he has the pin/pen merger. [en.wiktionary.org] I grew up with that - articulate the vowels as something in between the two. My wife teased me and quizzed me till I was able to distinguish and produce the separate sounds, but it’s again something that I’ll only bother with when being careful.
@variablepulserate Huh. Me too, come to think. Dictionaries show it as a standard American pronunciation alongside the version with an enunciated t.
@phoneboy Aw man. They make us pay our own return postage here. Don’t even tell you how many stamps it takes - not like the ballot weight isn’t standardized or anything.
@matigo From what you’ve said here, it sounds like, “We can rewrite the entire thing 10 times, and still be cheaper than the competing solution.”
/@variablepulserate