• SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This post has made me spend the last 20 minutes sounding out the word “genetically” in my head to see if it should have four or five syllables. I think I might even pronounce it differently in different contexts.

    I am a biologist, by the way.

    I have decided it has 4.35 syllables.

    I am a mathematical biologist.