• doxxx
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    1 month ago

    For fuck’s sake, stop making company/product names that are homophones of normal English words with “creative” spelling.

    “I bought a mikroPhone the other day”.

    “Oh, I didn’t know you sang?”

    “…what?”

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        1 month ago

        Ways to say microphone

        Albanian mikrofon Basque mikrofonoa Belarusian мікрафон [mikrafon] Bosnian mikrofon Bulgarian микрофон [mikrofon] Catalan micròfon Corsican microfonu Croatian mikrofon Czech mikrofon Danish mikrofon Dutch microfoon Estonian mikrofon Finnish mikrofoni French microphone Frisian mikrofoan Galician micrófono German Mikrofon Greek μικρόφωνο [mikrófono] Hungarian mikrofon Icelandic hljóðnema Irish micreafón Italian microfono Latvian mikrofons Lithuanian mikrofonas Luxembourgish Mikrofon Macedonian микрофон [mikrofon] Maltese mikrofonu Norwegian mikrofon Polish mikrofon Portuguese microfone Romanian microfon Russian микрофон [mikrofon] Scots Gaelic micreofon Serbian микрофон [mikrofon] Slovak mikrofón Slovenian mikrofon Spanish micrófono Swedish mikrofon Tatar микрофон Ukrainian мікрофон [mikrofon] Welsh meicroffon Yiddish מיקראָפאָן [mikrofon]

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        1 month ago

        I’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.