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minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago“jod” was clearly meant to be humorous, and the delivery was perfect. “Jift” was either an attempt at a real argument, or else it was piggybacking on the previous joke making it unoriginal in addition to poorly delivered. Also, how do you pronounce giraffe?
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoLike, as in “jiraffe” or are you literally saying “guh-raffe”?
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat still doesn’t tell me whether you’re using a soft g or a hard g
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoAt this point only IPA can help, only it uses the same symbol, smh: ɡɪˈrɑːf Edit: it looks like monospace doesn’t render IPA properly: ɡɪˈrɑːf
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“jod” was clearly meant to be humorous, and the delivery was perfect. “Jift” was either an attempt at a real argument, or else it was piggybacking on the previous joke making it unoriginal in addition to poorly delivered.
Also, how do you pronounce giraffe?
giraffe of course :P
Like, as in “jiraffe” or are you literally saying “guh-raffe”?
gee-raf
That still doesn’t tell me whether you’re using a soft g or a hard g
At this point only IPA can help, only it uses the same symbol, smh:
ɡɪˈrɑːfEdit: it looks like monospace doesn’t render IPA properly: ɡɪˈrɑːf