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    321 hours ago

    and the company “Nike” is yelling “no it’s Nike! Like the god!”

    So in this example, are they yelling it like their namesake is actually pronounced ( [niː́kɛː] , the i like in “flee”, the e like in “bad”), or in the english pronounciation (i like in “die”, e like in “flee”)?

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      014 hours ago

      Oh good! Someone that thinks there’s multiple ways to pronounce it. Thankfully wiktionary only has a single IPA pronunciation for both the shoe and the brand and they’re the same. ˈnaɪkiː. Though I do appreciate you pulling out the Ancient Greek pronunciation as a “gotcha”.

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            17 hours ago

            Generally “sane” people just stop talking to people they do not wish to hear from. When you don’t reply to people they tend to not reply back.

            Talking to someone in order to say you don’t want to talk to them is…