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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

how to i pronounce fr? (even if i don't say it out loud i gotta pronounce it in my head)

do i expand the acronym and say "for real" (e.g. /fə‿ɹiːl/) or do i say /fɹ/ like in fruit?

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

Just f as in fan then roll the r. Frrrrrrrrrrr. Fr fr sounds like two short bursts of submachine gun fire.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure it's just expanded and pronounced "for real," so frfr would be "for real for real."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's halfway in between. You say "f'ree". It sits in the spot between 1 and 2, like a wobbly and uncertain syllable, that lingers as "mine" beyond "me".

Notice how the former is longer than the latter, despite being the same number of notes. A warble, a wiggle, a bridge between meters, "FR" is timed out like "baroque".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Makes me think of how Samurai Jack got his name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGt6cybFkF4

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This is how I'll talk to my kids. Not because they spend too much time on my phone, but because I look at too many memes

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