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No, I believe they're no a checkerboard.

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I wonder if the issue is that using "ee" and "oo" isn't something that native-English-speaking adults usually productively apply, since they already know how to spell most words that use those letter combinations, and any new word an adult encounters is likely to be from a foreign language (which usually don't use those combinations) or else a combination of familiar elements (compound word or word with affixes).

And more generally, encountering a new word as a native-speaker adult that feels like the sort of word everyone here would have learned as a child but isn't familiar at all seems kind of weird (but such a word could have been made up by a child, who doesn't yet see that as weird). "Spief" would be a bit better, since German is probably the most likely language that English would borrow from that has words of that shape.

(I think my intuition would be that foreign borrowings tend to have more open syllables (or at least more restrictions on codas) and/or more than one syllable, or are recognizable as being from a specific language, maybe. Probably something a bit more complicated than that.)

Also, I was just looking for the original post and found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/KindleUnlimited/comments/1l8f14l/from_the_depths_of_my_heart_i_changed_the_name_of/

Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

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It's not rock music, it's block music.

genuinely think toby fox might be one of the funniest people alive

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A puppy shows up with boxing gloves on and starts beating everyone to death

OUR MURDERS | TORTURE MOVIE | Full Violence Film | Killer

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videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel

or a cartoon character who creates monsters that terrorize everyone except the main character, who is both cheerfully oblivious to the threat and somehow manages to avoid all danger.

met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

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beatboxing… human? double puppy? whatever a puppy's pet would be?

girl, we've been knowing how to paw

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Digits 0-9 have emoji variants (they're on this list, I assume because of the keycap emojis), and it seems the auto-biggifying of emoji is always limited to three characters, and doesn't care whether actual emoji presentation is used.

☺

😀😀😀

😀😀😀😀

on desktop, if you type just a 1-3 digit number, it's big, but if it's 4 or more digits, it's small.

what weird clash of autofomratting (sic) rules resulted in this?

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Wait... I just noticed my iPhone has a camera prog that lets me actually frame my own shots and stuff like we could back in the feature phone days. Does that mean whoever just got back from their time machine also prevented Apple Photos from coming into existence? Or are they just less blatant about it being a money grab, and letting people take their own photos as well? Is it safe to go outside without a mask now?

(…and before anyone gets on my case for being a "conspiracy theorist", even if I trusted them to only sell to friends and family, I didn't even want my family to have photographs of me before Apple Photos!)

…

…wait, what's COVID?

The question isn't "should we kill Steve Jobs?" but "when do we kill Steve Jobs?"

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2011 should be early enough to prevent the start of development of Siri Inside and the whole smartimplant industry that followed. At least if someone else invents them, maybe they'd be regular products you can buy... just think! A world where minisales hadn't been invented! Maybe Siri would even remain ad-free!

The question isn't "should we kill Steve Jobs?" but "when do we kill Steve Jobs?"

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Land of the free*!

*with purchase of any item of greater value

It’s that time of year again

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Dividing languages into equivalence classes to see whether they're regular is so fun.... #myhill

Being pissed abt a nonissue is so fun.... #myhill

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a catcophoney

makes u think. 🐈☎️

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Uni's magical Mario Galaxy adventure..

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o toki kepeken toki pona tan ni: ilo toki suli li ken ala kute e sina.

A Large Language Model could never learn toki pona. Because it's a small language

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I activate Draw Two, which lets you draw two more cards from your deck!

they're dating

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huh?

I also love when thousands of artists are at risk of losing their job to AI #slop

cmon you cant tell me he doesnt desderve all those jobs #daretobestupid

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woɘm

objects in mirror may be more catlike than they appear