Language Overflow

7:22 AM

@CowperKettle Don't read too much into it

7:54 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I don't understand

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Are you allowed to jog?

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Jasper Loy

11:02 AM

@CowperKettle What heart rate monitor do you use? Apple watch? =)

11:32 AM

@JasperLoy a dirt-cheap Chinese monitor from AliExpress

I just picked the most popular model

When browsing the internet, my resting heart rate hovers at 40-45 bpm

12:17 PM

@JasperLoy this one

ru.aliexpress.com/item/…

12:53 PM

So I'm trying to find an animal homophone for mayor. I'm assuming it must be mare, but I personally hear them as distinct words. Any native speaker that has them homophonic want to let me know what accent/dialect they use?

Anonymous

1:14 PM

@DRF It's essentially AmE vs BrE. In BrE, they're typically homophones because the disyllabic pronunciation of mayor was lost a few centuries ago, but it's still current in AmE.

Anonymous

For most AmE speakers, the two are clearly distinct in careful speech.

Anonymous

And careful speech is what most of us think of when we try to analyze our own speech and think about how we pronounce something, so of course if you ask most of us we'll say they sound quite different.

@snailboat Thank you very much. That explains why I hear them differently. I even got so far as to realize it was the syllables that were confusing me.:) But my main accent (so far as I have one that's not just foreign) would be Mid-west.

Anonymous

However, we do blur the two together in rapid speech sometimes, and that can collapse the distinction. That happens most often before a name (e.g. Mayor Bloomberg).

The question actually came up due to Only Connect, which is a great quiz show on BBC4. Where they are treated as homophones for the purpose of a group of female animal homophones (damn, mayor, yew, dough).

Anonymous

1:19 PM

Yeah, that tracks. They're sure to be homophones for almost all BrE speakers.

Anonymous

o/ !

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Turns out I find it tricky to find that connection because when I'm trying to solve/think about it I pronounce it with two syllables. When I say Mayor Bloomberg to myself I can just about hear the mare.

\o/

Q: using "the" in these sentences

1:32 PM

@CowperKettle Meaning 154 is normal, don't say "oh crap my heart beats too fast"

@CowperKettle Nopes.

Jasper Loy

2:00 PM

Hiiiii @snailboat !!!!!!!

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2:19 PM

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3:27 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ No, 154 is not fast, but I should not get my rate above that, according to a formula I found online.

My permitted peak maximum is 180 bpm

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'm very sorry.

3:40 PM

In a 10-km jog I've just had, my average heart rate is a bit higher, 145 bpm

There are visible drops. I went into the trees to make some water, and then I went to the football field to snap some photos of the football players playing in -5 °C.

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5:05 PM

@CowperKettle Nah, it's only till I make sure the wounds heal

Which is probably 6 weeks to two months

I do incorporate some minutes of jogging though. Shh, don't tell my doctor

5:49 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Please do not

You must be sure that the sutures have healed

Jogging will wait, and walking is great for your health

Well, my brisk walking is already "jogging" for some people

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I just increase the speed a little bit for a minute or so

There are lots of people doing Nordic walking in my park

I have to overcome them and they block the path

The good thing about it is when my stomach feels funny, I know to stop

5:51 PM

Healing of the sutures and good incorporation of the graft is paramount.

So pretty solid guideline

@CowperKettle No it's Columbia pictures

Haha

I'm going back to my Holocaust poem.

And I'm back to studying

Babi Yar

Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar; Russian: Бабий Яр, Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first, and best documented, of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Major-General Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C...

The poem is about this massacre, where more than 100 thousand people were shot.

There were only 29 documented survivors.