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"Pronounce" by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (www.smbc-comics.com)

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Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce

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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

english is my second language and i feel it has wasted a lot of brain memory, because i have to learn the spelling and pronunciation of each word separately and the link them together, when i could just learn one of those and know the other

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Same and in most situations I can pass as an English first speaker.

I was at IKEA buying a bed frame and asked the person at the counter if she had put the slats on the bill... But I pronounced it like slates because I was sure I had seen an "e" at the end of the word and there went the illusion 🤷

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