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  • i don’t understand why most people on the internet don’t use IPA for conveying pronunciation

    while it is more complicated, and unless you are a phonology nerd, you have to look things up (including me), it is incredibly more concise

    it is, in fact, the only way to concisely convey any pronunciation (excluding single language focused phonetic notations)

    different english dialects have different pronunciation: e.g. fur can be /fɜː(ɹ)/, /fɜɹ/ and /fʌr/

    While this is not the case for your comment, others also use made-up words for conveying pronunciation. Ghoti is a perfect example why that is problematic.













  • Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion, Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.

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  • where to get games:
    this will not probably work for most multiplayer games or always-online games like Genshin Impact

    • lots of games can be bought legally and DRM-free on GOG e.g. The Witcher, Baldurs Gate, Stronghold Crusaider HD
    • especially Indie Games can be bough and/or downloaded on itch.io e.g. Doki Doki Literature Club
    • there is always the option to pirate games

    Lutris is a FOSS game launcher for GNU+Linux that handles installing from different (open-API) sources like GOG or itch.io or just a local installer file. It also manages wine/proton versions, settings and prefixes for each game. It also integrates with a lot of emulators for old consoles like 3DS, PSP or Atari.