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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[–] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that is fine, when/if someone corrects you, you explain that you have never heard the word spoken, just read it.

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[–] digger@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This right here! I tell my kids not to give someone a hard time mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it from reading.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could record the times when you find out a new word that you've been pronouncing wrong. You should notice less and less new mispronounced words as your list of known mispronounced words gets longer and longer. If you graph the data out, you can extrapolate the curve out to infinity, and you can estimate how many total words you're mispronouncing.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • genre
  • only
  • gif
  • croissant
  • Aloysius
  • Edinburgh
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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The channel this video is from can be a useful resource.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If people can correct you then it means they understood it perfectly clear.

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

Every time I mispronounce a word, people are assholes and make fun of me. Human beings are pieces of shit for so many reasons.

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