JohnnyCanuck

u/JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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on Is this photo AI? · c/asklemmy · 7 pts · 18d

It would probably be easier to Photoshop this than to AI generate it and get all the posters looking right.

on Wat? · c/pics · 2 pts · 30d

Magnets? Aliens?

I am all for leaving Granville as pedestrian-only (permanently) and running transit down Seymour and Howe. I've been saying Vancouver downtown needs that for years.

But spending $300k a week "for sanitation and traffic work" is fucking ludicrous. What the fuck are they smoking? Are they hiring staff to pick up garbage 24/7 on every fucking corner? Are they fucking polishing the asphalt like it's a marble countertop?

And $200k a week for security? You don't need to put 60 extra cops on the street just because it's pedestrian only.

Again, this is extra budget. On top of what would already be spent just by having Granville St be Granville St - which already gets regular sanitation and police patrols. There's no fucking way this is just to maintain it as pedestrian only.

This is absolute madness and is just a setup for it to fail because "it costs too much."

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Oh sweet summer child.

Well I guess I was just trying to show that the French barely pronounce the R. It's very soft at best and English speakers often hear it as more of a "kwa" or like "quoi" is pronounced (or like, maybe "cwah" if you like a hard C in your drink.)

The phonetic pronunciation in French is: [kʁwasɑ̃] (if that doesn't come through, look at Wikipedia

The ʁ (upside down R) is guttural or uvular, and in some pronunciation guides it can even be dropped.

Anyways, you seem upset at their butchering of the pronunciation guide they're giving to show how badly they butcher their imitation of how the French pronounce croissant (there's no hard T at the end, for example) and I think that makes this particularly funny.