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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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Shtrawberry. Drinking shtraw as well.

Any time I try and pronounce it with a hard S and not SH, it ends up sounding like a bad 90s parody of a gay man. I practically flounce.

I can't be the only one..

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think this way of speaking developed in the USA over the last 30 years or so.

I saw a video about that a few months ago how people seem to put the sh sound into more and more places. Like they don't say stormtrooper, they say shtormshrooper. Can't find it anymore and don't remember the channel.

To me it sounds weird. We learned this as a distinct difference to German that it's straw and not shtraw, like it would be pronounced in German.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See, that one I don't do. Storm is fine. It's anything with str.

Shtraight. Shtrip.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 days ago

Looks to me like you're mixing the English r sound into the st sound.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Now that's intriguing, I've never encountered this.

Hope you can find the video - I'll go look.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ah ha! I'm not crazy! Thank you. That was a great video.