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Mac@mander.xyz · 24 pts · 95d (1 reply)

Rest-ow-ront

Restaurant

far_university1990@reddthat.com · 18 pts · 95d

Restoirent where i eat borgir.

SoupBrick@pawb.social · 19 pts · 95d (1 reply)

I have learned the best way to remember how to spell restaurant, for me, is to pronounce the Spanish word for it, "restaurante".

If you remove the 'e' it sounds the same as it is spelled.

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 95d
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lugal@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 95d (6 replies)

2 sets of alphabets

Today: Greek and Serbian Cyrillic

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 95d (4 replies)

Chinese characters have entered the chat.

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 94d (3 replies)

That's not an alphabet but sure, why not

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 94d (2 replies)

Ok, who here ordered ancient hieroglyphs?!

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 94d

At this point I accept everything within UNICODE so let's go with cuneiform next

TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 94d

Rongorongo would like to know your location.

antimidas@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 94d

Tomorrow: Georgian script and Ogham.

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 94d

Dog, cat, uuhhh, big dog, no I think I already said that, uh... dog?

Good work, time to reward myself with 2 hours of sponsored YouTube videos

antimidas@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 94d

Here my European brain was thinking the two sets of counting and alphabet meant two counting in two different languages and systems and listing two different alphabets like Cyrillic and Greek...

I should learn to read things through before jumping to conclusions.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 95d

I read restiront as some word I didn't know until I read the whole meme outloud to my wife.

halfapage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 95d
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x00z@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 94d (1 reply)

BrickEater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d

Fuuuuck haven't seen that face in ages.

Ichiro_kun@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 94d

Saying restiront to Restaurant is crazy fr. đŸ˜­

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 95d

Feel the burn! Ohhh yeaaaahhh!!!

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 94d

Try something new. Best brain workout.

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d

Cats Dogs Lizards Jackie Chan

BZZZT!!

Ohh new personal best!

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 95d

Let’s say a squirrel, that’s a good one.

rageagainstthemachine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 94d

This is your brain on AI.

Vespair@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 94d (2 replies)

I've never understood this meme - restaurant isn't even a remotely difficult word to spell. I don't think I've genuinely ever seen anyone in the real world past first grade who misspells it.

Why do we keep regurgitating these weird pop culture opinions with no basis?

I put this right up there with acting like anyone has ever actually given a shit if another person eats pineapple on pizza or pretending to dislike the word "moist."

We don't have to repeat shit just because we heard somebody else say it.

goosehorse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 94d (1 reply)

Once, while working a blue collar job, I encountered a person who didn't know the word "citrus".

They tried sounding it out: "sigh-truss" is where they landed.

Vespair@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 94d

Mispronuncing words, even misspelling them, especially if they're new to you, is always entirely understandable.

But my point isn't about people misspelling restaurant. My point is about the meme that restaurant is hard to spell. I would never judge a person in real life who struggled to spell it, that's fine. But that doesn't make it a hard to spell word, and there are a million actually hard to spell common words we don't talk about like this. It's another meaning pop culture regurgitation, and that's the point I'm making