• @givesomefucks
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    282 months ago

    You think that’s fucked?

    The inability to pronounce “R” is called Rhotacism.

    If you have it you’re literally unable to say the name of it

  • @DontTreadOnBigfoot
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    2 months ago

    I suffer from a very sexy learning disability.

    What do I call it Kif?

  • @QuarterSwede
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    102 months ago

    From Oxford Languages (what Google uses):

    late 19th century: coined in German from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek lexis ‘speech’ (apparently by confusion of Greek legein ‘to speak’ and Latin legere ‘to read’).

    • @XeroxchasechaseOP
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      52 months ago

      Good to know, in general, but the irony of this term is still funny to me.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    all those kinds of imparements are puns. like haveing a lisp. or to stutter. all speech and reading imparements are words that are hard to pronounce or read by the people affected. no idea why. just saying its the rule and no exception.