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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it's impossible to spell any English word phonetically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

funneddic (US)
funnettic (UK)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's transposing it how we sound to them, though!

If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I'm to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:

Fehr ned ik (US)

Foe net eck (UK)