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Thinking about the bifurcated pronunciation of “retard”. Like, “with the brakes applied, downhill acceleration is retarded” would be pronounced pretty much like a diagnostic “the nuns worked with deaf-mutes and retarded children” or colloquial “episodes 7-9 were retreads, but the prequels were retarded”
But where “the membrane will retard saltwater infiltration of the aquifer” would be like a clipped British “ritard”, it’d be “John is a REE-tard”
theresponseblog said:
? Maybe it’s just me but I never recall anyone pronouncing them differently. fractalfruittrees reblogged this from kontextmaschine
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kontextmaschine said:
@kaumnyakte @argumate and when something retards fire you call it a retard*ant* hostel-california liked this
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- kontextmaschine said:
@kaumnyakte @argumate yeah I guess the senses do line up with noun/verb. There’s no such thing as “a retard” to retard things like “a baffle” or “a drain”, and you never say “Dan and Linda are very smart but I expect Down Syndrome will retard their daughter”
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kaumnyakte said: this is just noun-verb stress alternation. like record
argumate said: this is just “content” (verb) vs. “content” (noun), it’s a standard thing
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Thinking about the bifurcated pronunciation of "retard". Like, "with the brakes applied, downhill acceleration is...