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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Usually english speakers are the candidates with the problems of homophones, because every unstressed syllable becomes a shwa.

To demonstrate: jeebus, jeebis, jeebes, jeebos and jeebas can all sound the same in English.

Other languages haven't the same problem.

But even in English you would probably say /painus/ and not /peenus/, wouldn't you?

For example in German "Penis" is pronounced with an /eh/ for the 'e' and an /ih/ for the 'i'. And Pinus has a distinct /ih/ and /oo/ . Not an /ai/ for the 'i'.

In conclusion, it should sound distinct in many languages.