Taiwan recognized the threat of disinformation from china around 2000-ish and engaged in a society-wide cognitive inoculation strategy that focuses on prebunking and media literacy education.

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I like to make a cardamom simple syrup and add it to....more things than is probably truly advisable, haha. I particularly like it on yogurt.

The Census of Quirinius isn't fictional, it just probably didn't coincide with Jesus' birth (Jesus couldn't have both been born during the census and under Herod I); Luke takes a lot of poetic and narrative license.

emu is delicious; this is a wonderful idea

oh, and you also need a pair of poultry shears; the OXO ones work well

the only downside is that you can't cook stuffing inside the bird, but this also means you don't have to take it *out* later

but there's a whole morpheme different there- I think that mishearing is more notable for thinking you heard /ed/ (or the context making you think it wasn't obligatory). noun vs participle has more distinctions here than just one vowel

I'd also note that many people in my life who don't merge these don't usually notice that I do unless I mention it; it's not usually a source of confusion the way pen/pin can be. Like how caught/cot almost never causes confusion, due to context and other cues

What I would say, sans IPA, is Mary is usually higher and more towards the front of the mouth, marry is in the middle, and merry is lower and more towards the back- but in my regular accent I merge all three and end up with comically different accent impressions when trying to demonstrate this

My family is full of people with wildly different accents who have merrily married Marys, which is probably part of why I can't remember which specific vowel mapping goes with which accent

I have the merger and my default is closer to [æ]; I can say and hear all 3 if I really want to but I can't usually remember which one is supposed to be which, particularly between Mary and marry

they did! youtu.be/5R_tOSRynZU?...