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They’ve probably found water ice, but I haven’t heard anything about organics. I heard that NASA had a false alarm and thought that they’d found organic molecules on mars, so that might be what you’re thinking about.

Yeah, FUCK the moon!

also thanks for the links :slight_smile:

As a general rule, I use “thee” before a word beginning with a vowel, and “thuh” before a word beginning with a consonant.

This give me an idea, I want to try and use “the” as little as possible and see if people notice.

You’d start to sound Russian.

Try not using “I” or “me” - it’s difficult.

I don’t understand what’s happening to Paul F. Tompkins. With every passing year he’s funnier and more attractive. The exact opposite is happening to me.

Wow, it Must really suck to age.

Try not using the letter “E”. :wink:
[COLOR=’#151515’]Ernest Vincent Wright did it, a story called “Gadsby”, an over 50,000 word novel without the letter “E”.

challng accptd

Without misspelling words.

confrontation OK’d

On the matter of thuh and thee it’s more a limitation of our alphabet than the pronounciation. If we had a letter or digraph for both phonemes then there wouldn’t be an issue. Personally I’d be in favour of bringing back thorn ( þ ).

Þe Olde Balck Meas?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2810

That’s not as far from the truth as one would hope:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html

In related Science news: these were published a couple minutes ago, and they’ll likely be the big news story tomorrow:

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1183.full

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1138.full.pdf

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1172.full.pdf

They’re write-ups of current ice melt studies. One shows that Greenland ice melt is at a rate 5 times greater than in 1992. I can’t wait to see the news stories about this and the reactions to them:

“Apocalypse in Slow Motion”, and then a bunch of reactionary denialists screaming about how the story is further proof that the Liberal media is in cahoots with Satan-Serving Science to perpetrate a fraud designed to sell Hybrids and get Secret Muslim Terrorists into the White House to declare Sharia Law in the US.

The plan is working quite nicely. Glory be to Allah.

dat precision

Those are ranges, not discrete data points.

Well that would make more sense, yeah.

Can’t say I’ve ever encountered ranges expressed this way though.

Anyway, time to invest in some boats and stuff.

I at least don’t differentiate th sounds in those two pronunciations of the. I always have this thing where I associate different sounds with directions so the th sound in the is more of a horizontal sound to me while the the sound in thread is more of a vertical sound. I don’t know if that makes any sense to anybody else or not.

Edit: It’s the same with voiced and unvoiced sounds.

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