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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did he ever say which wendy's? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

How much you payin'?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I know it's beyond the realm of rules, but wouldn't it be... "caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare"?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, my pedantic ass always cringes at stretched consonants and silent vowels.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You can stretch an r if you roll it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I don't caREEEEEEEE~

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One could argue that you're extending the noise of all three "are" sounds, so I think any of the 3 are valid choices. The 'e' definitely feels least correct, but still valid to me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One could argue and one would be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One would be wrong

Are you willing to test that?

Which version of the "a" sound are you extending, long or short? I believe it's neither, because you're actually extending the "are" sound to make the "air" noise instead of "ay" or "ah" therefore, extending all three letters or any individual letter is valid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been yelling it for the past 20 minutes, I would never bring to the conversation something untested.

Here's proof:

You can say "caaaare", you can say "carrrrre" and you can say "careeeee".

You would sound like a much bigger freak in both the latter istances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

(I also said it out loud for a bit before commenting lmao I love this "argument")

Counterargument:

You can say them, sure, but let's be slightly less theoretical about this, the word care has one vowel, but two noises. First you make a "k" sound for the c, then an "air" sound for the are. When we extending the noise, we extend the entire "air" rather than any individual noise that any of those letters make.

My argument is thus:

"Caaare," "Carrre," "Careee" and "Caaarrreee" all, when written, communicate to me that the "air" sound is being extended. None of these denote that the noise assigned to the letter in use is being extended despite their initial appearance to do so. Therefore, all three are valid spellings of the extended version of the word care.

My reasoning:

Definitions come from the way we use words, that's how Shakespeare got away with inventing so many words. He said or wrote them and then a bunch of people heard or read them and thought "yeah that collection of noises is acceptable to explain this feeling/object/concept/etc". Therefore, written words are only an indicator of meaning and not an actual reference point for information (if you're into computer science that phrasing will make sense, if not... Well I hope you're into computer science cause it's gonna take a me a while to figure out how to rephrase that in a way that makes more sense for what I'm trying to say). As a result, multiple spellings of the same spoken word may be valid because they're still capable of indicating the same meaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

And this is the kind of content I come to lemmy looking for lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

That's a lot of confidence in your ball garglin' skills.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Literally me few months ago...

::: spoiler: reality My boss liquidated his business and I decided to travel. :::

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Just FYI your spoiler ain’t working. I think you need to need to remove the : after spoiler and put a new line after reality

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Travel to all of the Wendies to find DaddyDoLittle?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Let's go behind the Wendy's and I'll teach you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's not to understand? 😁

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Bells. Ringa-ting-ting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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