how do you know I’m just a child?"

“You just told me, kiddo!”

With the situation in the US right now plus the pandemic plus the job market plus all the other stuff that’s been bubbling up where I live, the new 20’s have been proving themselves to be pretty bad.

Linux is a great example, thank you.

You say this with certainty, so you’ve got me curious. Could you show me some successful international non-profits that reject Capitalism?

We live in a Capitalist world, and like it or not, those CEOs know how to make companies thrive in it.

That’s the idea, at least.

My partner’s family really wanted to buy me gifts before I thought we were that close. So I bought them gifts that same year!

Or never at all! Haha

I don’t think age determines when that happens

Suh-poon is also reasonably common!

It if you speak Spanish, “Es-poon”!

My apologies though, I got it backwards. I’ll edit the comment to be accurate, but for router (networking stuff)…

“oo” is more common outside of North America.

“au” is more common in North America.

I feel like a lot of people just drop the “I a” and say “'preciate it!”, lol

(That’s assuming you’re using it like “thank you”, and aren’t just starting a sentence)

Mispronunciation. “Mis” isn’t a word, but a prefix (or something) that gets attached to another word to modify it. Since it’s not its own word, it gets prepended to the root word (“pronounce” in this case) without a dash.

German would always have the capital. In English, proper nouns get capitalized. There’s an official list, I’d bet, but a good rule of thumb is that titles (books, movies), specific place names (Germany, London, Abbey Road), people’s names (Bob, Reiner), and “I” (but not “me” etc) are put into “Title Case”. (Title case wouldn’t be capitalized, I just typed it that way to demonstrate it)

I actually like a lot of the German capitalization rules. On the internet, a lot of people will be more casual with capitalization. Some people will capitalize “important words”, or things that aren’t proper nouns but have a different meaning than usual…but these kinds of things are improper.

As for routing (and router, and heck…route in general)…both are correct pronunciations of this “ou”. I think “au” is more common for networking in North America, and “oo” is more common in other English-speaking countries (the UK, Australia…).

As for “route” as in “Route 56”, I tend to hear and say both/either (I’m in North America).

Sorry it’s so inconsistent!

“sp” cluster can be hard. So can “sk” at the end of a word. Hence why you can get “axe” instead of “ask”

“uu” would just be “oo” (most likely) in English, generally. I’m not sure what the difference would be

Half the price isn’t bad to get more longevity out of a phone. And a different used phone will probably have to have its battery replaced fairly soon enough, too

Queue is just the name of the letter “Q”.

But it “kyoo” might not be an easy sound depending on your mother tongue

It only has a single vowel, which is an r-coloured vowel…which most languages don’t have. For that matter, many languages don’t even have our “r” sound, so colouring a vowel with “r” is incredibly hard when you don’t even have that consonant to colour with!

Not to mention that after using that r-coloured vowel, you have a semi-syllabic L immediately afterwards. (Is squirrel one syllable or two? Depends on who you ask I guess!). As you may know, L and R are the same in some languages. And even if a language has both AND pronounces them the same ways as English (not necessarily common), they might not allow an L to follow an R! (Just like how we don’t allow R to follow an L)

Oh, and which vowel are we colouring? “i” or the “short I”. This is a very rare vowel, following a third dimension (tenseness) that the majority of other vowels don’t use. Not common in other languages, either!

So that’s the last two sounds.

The first three is a consonant cluster containing another uncommon consonant (w). And even ignoring that, s and k can’t always be combined together in other languages.

So literally every sound in the word “squirrel” has something foreign and rare about it to many languages immediately as you start to get past that “s” sound. Brutal.

Of course, we have two th sounds just to make things more fun

Oh, Galaga is another good one!

I play lots of games from my childhood. Even though it was before my time, Super Mario Bros on the NES is probably the oldest game I regularly go back to. But I love retro games, so I’ll play even older games on occasion.