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So with a sliiiight adjustment this can mean something in IPA. (That’s “International Phonetic Alphabet”, not “India Pale Ale”, in case anyone was confused.)

The symbol <ɜ> — which looks like a 3 but is in fact a backwards epsilon — represents a kind of central vowel sound. The colon — formally written as a triangular colon but informally people just use normal colons all the time — represents a lengthened vowel sound. So these are both symbols we can understand as carrying phonetic meaning.

However! The symbol for vowel lengthening has to come after the vowel, not before. So /:3/, or more properly /ːɜ/, doesn’t work. The colon indicates that we’re lengthening a vowel immediately before, but there’s no vowel there. We COULD say “this power word has to follow a vowel sound” OR…

Obviously if “backwards epsilon” is an IPA symbol it’s because “regular epsilon” was already taken. And it is! Epsilon, <ɛ>, is used to represent a certain front vowel sound — the backwards epsilon is the symbol it is because it’s a centralized version of this one. I’m not going to get into the vowel trapezoid here, so instead I’ll say this is the vowel found in English “pet”.

And if we use the regular epsilon, we can put the lengthening colon AFTER it and get the same face. So if we adjust to “Power Word ɛː”, we’re in business.

It’s pronounced “eeeeehhhhh”.

La virgen...

A wizard in real life

he's casting spells

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

High fives all around, friends. If we’ve accomplished nothing else today, we still have this.

I feel the need to add this

Death Of The Author is out, Bullying Of The Author Out Of A Forum About Their Own Work is in

Pigeon attempts to court falcon

For all those in the notes - peregrine falcons hunt by dive-bombing their prey; this falcon however is currently stationary and cannot dive-bomb much of anything. In this moment, the pigeon is safe. The falcon however may not recover from the embarrassment.

I can't tell if that's a giant pigeon or a tiny falcon

Tiny falcon

the women characters in hideo kojima’s games are really sexualized, but in a way that a reclusive gay man would sexualize them

I think endlessly about how he allegedly has a wife and son which nobody anywhere knows anything about at all, and the primary source of this information appears to be this excerpt from a four-paragraph Wired article written by Tim Rogers in 2004:

dont you dare call me a fucking fake gamer i think about dick every moment of my life.

What does that have to do with gaming ?

fake gamer spotted. take the shot.

Black Inca Hummingbird (Coeligena prunellei), family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, endemic to Colombia

photograph by @ernestoobandog | IG

first date advice

I cannot BELIEVE you guys actually signing up to netflix just because account sharing was banned. You need to learn about cool websites with many beautiful women who would love you message you and send you downloadable files.

The icon for Banishment is so funny.

Just get outta here. Leave.

listening to fleetwood mac is like. i don’t know this song but let’s give it a shot. oh wait i do know this song. i’ve heard it a million times and always liked it, i just didn’t know the name. on some level i kind of assumed that song was just an ambient part of the world the way the sound of the wind or birdsong in the trees was but apparently it’s by fleetwood mac. neat.

hey come here a second . ignore the noise just come here

keep ignoring the noise pspspspsps come here don't look up

little closer yeah hi *into a walkie talkie* DEPLOY THE CRAB get crabbed idiot

idk if elon will kill his new chatbot grok when he finds out its woke, but he'll definitely kill it once he discovers it's funnier than him

reliving some childhood with the group chat :>

If you had five billion you could hop from job to job, calling entitled customers idiots all across your city, putting the fear of You into every shithead in town until people become afraid to be rude to servers and cashiers, lest you emerge from the back room like some kind of manners-enforcing specter

Cunk On Britain (2016-2018)