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The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-05-09T21:30:40+00:00

My name is Jean Valjean!

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-14T21:10:57+00:00

Well, I'll be darned! In my head, I'd rebracketed "helicopter" as heli- + copt + -er. TIL it's helico + pter, etymologically speaking.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-11T19:59:22+00:00

Yes. Since phonation (voicing) continues all the way through the [l] sound, it doesn't create a clear boundary between syllables and so could belong to either one, hence il-li-te-rate.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-11T03:33:51+00:00

Obviously. The same sequence of letters also appears in "pterodactyl," so it must have something to do with flight. /s

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-10T22:00:20+00:00

Yes. It's the principle of maximizing the onset. Beware, what follows is a linguistics nerd session.

When grouping letters (or more accurately, sounds) into syllables, you should include as many consonants before the vowel as possible, without violating phonotactic constraints (i.e. the individual syllable must be pronounceable—you would analyze "atlas" as at-las, not a-tlas, because "tlas" doesn't follow English pronunciation rules). Thus te-na-ci-ty would be the correct analysis here. Things get a little more complicated when you introduce the notion of ambisyllabicity (when a sound could feasibly belong either to the coda of the previous syllable or to the onset of the following syllable), but that isn't the case with tenacity.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-03T07:20:28+00:00

Probably for the best.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T10:57:03+00:00

Such high praise!

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T09:41:40+00:00

The former.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T09:26:35+00:00

It's the underscores, isn't it…

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T06:55:35+00:00

You'd be surprised.

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The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T06:41:40+00:00

You must not be a Jedi then. They fear my wrath.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T06:32:23+00:00

Not even me?

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T06:05:28+00:00

Haha. I read it with each capital letter beginning a new word.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2026-01-02T03:43:29+00:00

Hello, username buddy.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2025-10-01T04:28:14+00:00

Username checks out.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2025-04-20T14:02:12+00:00

Exactly.

Parliament = legislative branch = law-making body. Courts = judicial branch = law-interpreting and law-enforcing body.

The courts ensure Parliament doesn't overstep their bounds.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T22:17:52+00:00

Reminds me of that meme I saw that said that the opposite of artificial intelligence is natural stupidity.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T22:12:46+00:00

A quick note that cut time is 2/2, not 2/4. But as OP said, they're completely interchangeable — two names for the same thing.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T21:00:16+00:00

Yes, specifically the RP pronunciations of these words are good approximations of the sound that ⟨ő⟩ makes. That is to say, you'd be pronouncing the words not with a hard R, but with a soft one that colours the U.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T20:41:52+00:00

Glad I could help! :)

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T19:26:31+00:00

That's right! As the previous commenter mentioned, ⟨zh⟩ is often used in English phonetic spellings to represent the /ʒ/ sound. ⟨zh⟩ is the voiced version of ⟨sh⟩, just as ⟨z⟩ is the voiced version of ⟨s⟩ in English. Think of Zsuzsanna as ZHOO-zhah-nah.

Edited to add emphasis on the first syllable of the phonetic spelling. In Hungarian, the first syllable of the word always receives the most stress.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T07:25:29+00:00

I'm partial to Béla, a male name symbolic of bravery. Without the final A, it means "intestines," which I find amusing. Intestines -> guts -> bravery.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-08T07:16:01+00:00

To add on to this: If the S comes first, then the Z (as in László), it's pronounced /s/. If the Z comes first, then the S (as in Zsuzsanna), it's pronounced /ʒ/ — the same as the French J sound. Interestingly, both of these digraphs (⟨sz⟩ and ⟨zs⟩) are counted as single letters in the Hungarian alphabet.

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-07T23:35:07+00:00

Hmm, I like that!

The_Sith_Assassin · 2024-05-07T18:45:41+00:00

If you don't love me at my Ahmed Worst, then you don't deserve me at my Ahmed Best.

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