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minus-squareLedivin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoCorrect but obviously exaggerating. I’d love to hear his not-quite-2-year-old daughter “using” 4-syllable words 🙄
minus-squareTyfud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoI mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.
minus-squarepeto (he/him)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoCan push California to 5 syllables if you really want to.
minus-squareTyfud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoAre you attacking my cultural heritage of slurring words like a drunk ferret?
minus-squareidiomaddict@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYep. Maybe the sister’s named Elizabeth (and they obviously didn’t accept any nicknames)
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoI’m not a wordologist. Do words become harder to say when they’re longer? I mean, alalalalalong has 6 syllables.
minus-squareLemmynated@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoLonger words are harder for children to get right.
minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoBut it’s so easy! alalalalalonglonglilonglonglong …damn, I messed up somewhere.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agomost people seem to be unable to pronounce anything longer than the word “pronounce”. repeat after me kids! Supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious!
Correct but obviously exaggerating. I’d love to hear his not-quite-2-year-old daughter “using” 4-syllable words 🙄
I mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.
Can push California to 5 syllables if you really want to.
Are you attacking my cultural heritage of slurring words like a drunk ferret?
Yep. Maybe the sister’s named Elizabeth (and they obviously didn’t accept any nicknames)
I’m not a wordologist. Do words become harder to say when they’re longer? I mean, alalalalalong has 6 syllables.
Longer words are harder for children to get right.
But it’s so easy!
alalalalalonglonglilonglonglong
…damn, I messed up somewhere.
Bob Marley is that you?
most people seem to be unable to pronounce anything longer than the word “pronounce”.
repeat after me kids! Supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious!