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They are likely a troll/AI etc given the name, I suspect most of those posts here are nowadays, and this thread is almost entirely such.


Do men/man and bitch/beach sound the same to you? I am kinda confused here, these words have distinct meanings and sounds.


> Do men/man and bitch/beach sound the same to you?

Not exactly the same, but I differentiate them more based on the context than in the pronunciation.

Giving an example for Portuguese that has about the same difference: "roupa de lá" (clothes from there) and "roupa de lã" (wool clothes). If you write them in Google Translate or similar you'll see the difference, which is very subtle for non-Portuguese speakers but sounds completely different to us.


Portuguese has a ton of such examples.

"O meu canto" can mean "My corner" and "My singing".

"Conselho" means "advice" and "Concelho" means "council".

"Aço" means steel, and "Asso" means "I roast".

All of these pairs sound exactly the same.


I have a policy of not following anyone with a large number of followers, as they are generally not worth listening to I've found.

Anyway I'll probably delete my twitter, haven't used it in a long time.


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