“… son”

Same with landlord and boss.

Which makes me realize: We tip our landlords but not our friends. Makes you think.

Totally AI generated

Sigma meme

Am I good enough to have impostor syndrome?

My first guess is sneezing but it might be coughing as well

Don’t be ridiculous!

That’s what I love about lemmy, here are experts on about every field of knowledge happy to share their expertise. Thanks!

Wow, that’s more than a century, isn’t it?

I thought they went extinct decades ago?

Well, one of the national parties stems from The Left Party and is still social, basically the ideology of the wing that gave the NSDAP their name, even though they didn’t play a role in the party later on. I know the rules, no spoilers in this sub, so I will leave it here.

So you sayin it could also be a dog

Wär mir unbekant

But English is measure of all things?

You still seem to think that allophone is when they sound the same. That’s not even part of the definition. In my last comment I elaborated about allophones that sound quite distinct for native speakers. Let me now explain what allophone really is:

One straightforward definition (that has its flaws) is that allophone is when there are no minimal pairs. You literally gave a minimal pair.

You can even have two identical phones belonging to different phonemes. German devoices final consonants so /d/ has the allophones [d] and [t^h]. In effect, “Rat” and “Rad” both have final [t^h] while being allophones of /t/ and /d/ respectively.

Never thought about the grandfather thing. I organized many father son weekends for ants and noone ever attended. Maybe grandfather son weekend is the way to go?

OP should totally watch that

Hawaiian has barely any consonants, so k, k^h, g, g^h, q, t, d, ʈ, … are all allophones no matter which language we are talking about? That’s not how this works. It would work when talking about words loaned into Hawaiian but not when talking about another language altogether.

And allophones aren’t necessarily difficult to distinguish. German has 2 versions of <ch> ([x] and [ç]) depending on the preceding vowel. Also we have quite a few realizations of /r/ (not as many of Dutch though) easy to tell apart and deduct roughly where someone is from. You’re just using the word wrong.

That’s not how allophones work. As a German native speaker, I have problems with the English vowel system and voice consonants in coda position (end of the syllable), still you won’t find me making a meme how bad, bat, bed, bet are all the same and allophones. Maybe self ironic “they are the same picture” but not using a scientific word wrongly. This is a meme community and I’m happy there are posts at all, but this isn’t for bet linguistics. We are better than that.

I don’t get it. A little more context would be appreciated. Are they pronounced the same or mean the same or both?

Wait, X is still a thing??