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I ditched WhatsApp a few days ago. I was mostly worried about friends in Asia and Africa, because phonecalls and SMSes will be prohibitively expensive, but my
by kseistrup 5y ago
I ditched WhatsApp a few days ago.
I was mostly worried about friends in Asia and Africa, because phonecalls and SMSes will be prohibitively expensive, but my worries were unfounded: north'ard of 90% of my contacts have already migrated to Signal and WhatsApp — about fifty-fifty, as far as I can tell — so out went WhatsApp. No more Facebook apps for me, thanks.
- annadane 5y agoWhy is this downvoted? The usual paid-to-brigade people coming in?
- andybak 5y agoI'm not paid and I just downvoted you because I really dislike this kind of comment. It's unverifiable mud-slinging and your tone was brusque and dismissive.
- tinus_hn 5y agoIt’s also complaining about downvotes which is explicitly against the rules.
- skinkestek 5y agoNo idea. In your case it is probably because of name-calling. Personally I usually don't downvote people for asking nicely why something was downvoted (when it isn't totally obvious) even if I know it is against the rules but the the moment name-calling starts any hesitation goes out the window.
- celticninja 5y agoJust out of curiousity, why do you write "northward" as "north'ard"? The contraction doesn't make sense as you are omitting one character to replace it with another. Is it to convey accent or is it common where you are to write it this way?
- kseistrup 5y agoHaha, I guess I have sung this sea shanty too often: https://youtu.be/He7X5jGt8lY https://youtu.be/He7X5jGt8lY
- kseistrup 5y ago— and I would like to add that in addition to omitted letters, the apostrophy can also indicate pronunciation (which is the case here).
- specialist 5y agoHuh. Your comments made me wonder if there are any English words, perhaps acknowledged in a dictionary, containing punctuation. A quick poking around suggests the answer is: no.
- celticninja 5y agoI guess that is what I meant by conveying accent, but pronunciation is the correct term, evidently escaping me at the time.
- ipaddr 5y agoI don't think that is true. Look at what your sentence fragment would be: the a'os'rophy can al'o in'i'ate pro'nun'i'tion If you leave out those letters you are omitting the important beginning sounds of each sylible. You generally want to highlight that sound and hide unnecessary characters.
- kseistrup 5y agoIf you had taken the time to listen to the video, you would have heard that the 'w' in 'northward' was indeed omitted in the pronunciation as well as in the spelling.
- leephillips 5y agoPretty awesome, that.