I know it’s beyond the realm of rules, but wouldn’t it be… “caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare”?
Yeah, my pedantic ass always cringes at stretched consonants and silent vowels.
You can stretch an r if you roll it
I don’t caREEEEEEEE~
One could argue that you’re extending the noise of all three “are” sounds, so I think any of the 3 are valid choices. The ‘e’ definitely feels least correct, but still valid to me
One could argue and one would be wrong.
One would be wrong
Are you willing to test that?
Which version of the “a” sound are you extending, long or short? I believe it’s neither, because you’re actually extending the “are” sound to make the “air” noise instead of “ay” or “ah” therefore, extending all three letters or any individual letter is valid
I’ve been yelling it for the past 20 minutes, I would never bring to the conversation something untested.
Here’s proof:
You can say “caaaare”, you can say “carrrrre” and you can say “careeeee”.
You would sound like a much bigger freak in both the latter istances.
(I also said it out loud for a bit before commenting lmao I love this “argument”)
Counterargument:
You can say them, sure, but let’s be slightly less theoretical about this, the word care has one vowel, but two noises. First you make a “k” sound for the c, then an “air” sound for the are. When we extending the noise, we extend the entire “air” rather than any individual noise that any of those letters make.
My argument is thus:
“Caaare,” “Carrre,” “Careee” and “Caaarrreee” all, when written, communicate to me that the “air” sound is being extended. None of these denote that the noise assigned to the letter in use is being extended despite their initial appearance to do so. Therefore, all three are valid spellings of the extended version of the word care.
My reasoning:
Definitions come from the way we use words, that’s how Shakespeare got away with inventing so many words. He said or wrote them and then a bunch of people heard or read them and thought “yeah that collection of noises is acceptable to explain this feeling/object/concept/etc”. Therefore, written words are only an indicator of meaning and not an actual reference point for information (if you’re into computer science that phrasing will make sense, if not… Well I hope you’re into computer science cause it’s gonna take a me a while to figure out how to rephrase that in a way that makes more sense for what I’m trying to say). As a result, multiple spellings of the same spoken word may be valid because they’re still capable of indicating the same meaning.
Did he ever say which wendy’s? Asking for a friend.
How much you payin’?
That’s a lot of confidence in your ball garglin’ skills.
How to gargle bells?
Let’s go behind the Wendy’s and I’ll teach you.
gargle what?
deez nuts
Literally me few months ago…
::: spoiler: reality My boss liquidated his business and I decided to travel. :::
Just FYI your spoiler ain’t working. I think you need to need to remove the : after spoiler and put a new line after reality
Travel to all of the Wendies to find DaddyDoLittle?
Opportunity never dies
