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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking (lemmy.world)

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'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

It's a miracle I know it, and having to teach someone how to read and spell was an eye opener for me trying to explain "this is like this except for this one word because... Reasons and sometimes there's a variation like this because...reasons" so many times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

I once had a roommate from Chile and he asked what the difference in pronunciation was for "juice" versus "Jews". I'm still not sure I properly got the difference across...

Also the difference between "to rob" and "to steal" was an interesting thing to think through and then explain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Mostly the "reasons" just boil down to etymology. We spell things the way the languages we stole them from spelled them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Having to explain to my spanish speaking friends why an english word is spelled one way but pronounced another entirely different way gave me the same experience. So many times i have to tell them: “i don’t know english is just weird.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Agreed, I am teaching my second son to read.

I am having the same conversations as when I taught my first to read.

"ok, this word is a 'sight word' because it doesn't make the sounds you expect. It says won, but it looks like it says on-e"