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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by lordnacho on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:15PM (#21589172)
The bible story about Shibboleths is quite an interesting example of this, and also where the term comes from.
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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by 77pt77 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:29PM (#21590206)
https://biblehub.com/judges/12-6.htm

For those that don't know.

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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by marcus_holmes on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:44AM (#21592659)
ahh, killing 42,000 people because of a mispronunciation. Gotta love that pro-life attitude that religion has ;)
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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by 77pt77 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:42PM (#21597728)
I had completely forgotten about this story.

It was nice to read it once again...

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