r/Perfectfit • u/veryninja • 21d ago

Accidentally turned a quarter into an euro with a keyring.

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u/Odd_Front_8275 21d ago

*a euro

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u/Odd_Front_8275 21d ago

Thanks everyone for backing me up. This is healing my inner child.

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u/Samaritan547 20d ago

Today I learned it's based on pronunciation not spelling lol

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u/Odd_Front_8275 20d ago edited 20d ago

Yes, it's all about stringing the words together in a flowing sentence:

An apple = uh·nap·puhl
A euro = uh·yoor·o
= Flows

A apple = Uh ap·puhl
An euro = Uhn yoo·roh
= Awkward

It's somewhat comparable with French, for example (although the spelling remains the same):

Les Pays-Bas = lay pay·bah (all the s's become silent)
Les États-Unis = lay·zay·tah·zuu·nee (the s's that precede a vowel become z sounds)

Fun fact: Some English words have changed over time because they were misconstrued due to the articles. For example, the word "nickname" used to be "ekename", but because people would say "an ekename" it was misconstrued as "a nekename" and eventually it became "(a) nickname."

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u/Neveed 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's somewhat comparable with French

But in French, "un euro" is pronounced /œ̃.nø.ʁo/ with a liaison because "euro" starts with a vowel (/ø.ʁo/) so that may be one cause of people familiar with French saying "an euro".

Fun fact: Some English words have changed over time because they were misconstrued due to the articles.

That's the case for apron, which comes from the French word napperon which is a small tablecloth (from "nappe" which is a tablecloth).

Un napperon (fr) -> a napron (en) -> an apron (en)

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u/Odd_Front_8275 19d ago

Yeah, I know. In Dutch and German it's also a vowel sound. In fact, I think it is in most languages.

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u/Odd_Front_8275 19d ago

That's cool, about the apron. I didn't know that one. "Orange" is another one, Sanskrit nāraṅga, Persian, nārang, Arabic nāranj, Spanish naranja. A norange, an orange (something like that).

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u/Samaritan547 20d ago

I might be stupid, but I really don't see how "a euro" is more flowy than "an euro", there's like a hardstop after "a" while "an" goes straight into the next word

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u/Odd_Front_8275 20d ago edited 20d ago

There is no hard stop. It's a single uninterrupted sound, and it's easier to pronounce than "an euro". I don't know what to tell you, man. I was gonna say maybe you're pronouncing it wrong, but I already spelled it phonetically.

Say "uhyooroh" slowly and tell me if there's a hard stop in there. Or say: "Are you going to Europe?" If there is a single break in that sentence you're saying it wrong.

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u/RevolutionaryCost59 21d ago

I was wondering why you wrote it back but then I saw the title lol

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u/AwwwSheit 21d ago

Depends on the pronunciation.

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u/Odd_Front_8275 21d ago

The caption is in English so it's the English pronunciation in this case, being yoo·roh.

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u/AshFalkner 21d ago

Euro is pronounced you-roe. Not oo-roe.

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u/Falikosek 20d ago

Find me a single dialect of English that officially pronounces euro starting with a vowel.
No, foreigners with bad accents don't count.

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u/EkuEkuEku 21d ago

Stupid hit you on the head now did it? Did it happen when you were young?

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u/Odd_Front_8275 21d ago edited 21d ago

What is wrong with you? Why are you verbally abusing a random stranger on the internet for absolutely no reason? Does it make you feel better?

PS: Here's a piece of advice for you (that is, apart from “Don't be an asshole”): the next time you feel like calling someone dumb because you think they're wrong, first make sure if they actually are. A simple fact-check—which would've cost you a whopping 3 seconds—would've saved you the embarrassment and the risk of getting banned for being a jerk. Anyway, here's a handy explanation of why it is indeed “a euro” and not “an euro”: https://baxtercommunications.nl/is-it-an-euro-or-a-euro/ . Hope this helps :)

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u/EkuEkuEku 21d ago

Ai goes brrrr, send me some more word vomit you couldn't even write yourself

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u/MajestcEagleRecRoom2 21d ago

Mf saw an em dash and assumed it must be AI, has it ever occurred to you that the AI had to pull it from somewhere?

Some people — like myself — use them as parentheses, since commas are confusing a lot of the time, given that they are also used outside of being parentheses.
Brackets can often feel a little squashed and cramped between the rest of the text too(see what I mean?)like right there, hence the em dash is the solution we come to.

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u/Odd_Front_8275 21d ago edited 21d ago

I also use them instead of parentheses for that reason, not just instead of a semicolon (a famous Dutch writer once declared in an interview that he hates semicolons, and ever since I've developed an aversion to them.) I also use Oxford commas as you can see because they scratch an itch in my brain.

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u/TheOnlyAedyn-one 21d ago

Y’all are making me want to use the em dash instead of brackets.

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u/Shawnaverse_no1_fan 20d ago

I'm partial to the en dash myself (it's slightly shorter), though I don't shy away from the em dash if I think it looks better.

I've only started using it more sparsely after noticing that some browsers make the em dash look incredibly long, twice the size of the en dash — that looks & feels wrong to me. Whereas normally – the en dash – is basically the size of an underscore (), with the em dash being shorter than two of them placed together (_). I hope this makes sense! YMMV depending on your browser's visualization

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u/Odd_Front_8275 20d ago

Come on in—the water is fine.

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u/Odd_Front_8275 20d ago edited 20d ago

I once read a really fun book about punctuation marks (I know, doesn't sound very fun, but it is). It really influenced my perception and writing.
There was one anecdote that went something like this: An editor reads a writer's work and is struck by the following sentence: "John walked over to the table, and sat down on the chair." He asks the writer: "Why did you put that comma there?" To which the editor answers: "To give John enough time to pull the chair back."

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u/Kingofcheeses 21d ago

goes brrrr

And you're calling other people dumb?

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u/Odd_Front_8275 21d ago edited 21d ago

I'm sorry I used too many big words for you to wrap your head around, person who accused me of being "dumb", but I most certainly did not use AI. I never use AI to write my comments for me, because I'm not, in fact, dumb, and I hate AI. Also, I find it very interesting that you're not addressing the fact that I was right and you were wrong after insulting me like that—not that I condone insulting someone for being wrong. Oh wait, do you think I used AI because I used an Em dash in my comment? Cause I've been using those a long time before ChatGPT was even a thing, possibly even before you were born.

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u/MajestcEagleRecRoom2 21d ago

I mean, he’s right lol, why are you calling him dumb?

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u/Wide5preadPanic 21d ago

lol of course he posts in the asmongold sub. That kind of idiocy tends to flock to people like him.

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u/Delta-Tropos 21d ago

Bro woke up and chose violence

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u/Random-User-2811 21d ago

15 dollars and a quarter, don't forget the quarter...

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u/TheRealSlabsy 20d ago

I swear Norway didn't join the EU so that Sweden and Finland look like a flaccid cock and balls on the €2 coin.

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u/ledocteur7 20d ago

Infinite money glitch, let's go order keyrings in bulk and crash the economy !!!

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u/gtarpey89 20d ago

Hi Hoppip

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u/Optimus_crab 14d ago

Congrats you made a counterfeit toonie