Exactly this.
How to pronounce the -ing in eating or going. I didn’t answer the poll because none of the answers was true for me. The -ing in finger is pronounced /ɪŋg/, but in eating or going it’s pronounced /ɪŋ/. So not the same as any of the choices. If the poll had asked “-ing as in singer,” I would have chosen that, because it doesn’t have the sound /g/ after the velar nasal /ŋ/.
This illustrates why I say that literacy has made us deaf to the sounds of our own language. We come to believe that words are made of letters, but they’re not. Words are made of sounds.
Finger /ˈfɪŋgɚ/
Singer /ˈsɪŋɚ/ - Hear the difference?
Eating /ˈiːtɪŋ/
Going /ˈgoʊɪŋ/
@by-tor’s Starburst poll. I don’t particularly like 'em & don’t think I’ve ever bought a bag of 'em; therefore, I cannot make an informed decision on their distribution in a bag.
Same here,
I don’t know how many steps I take in an average day. I don’t count them, nor do I wear a counter.
I do know that it varies considerably. And that I have to get off the computer and go do something that will involve quite a few of them.
Since my current back problems my step count is approximately 3.
Slightly exaggerated.
I checked my fitbit account, which I’ve had for an unbelievable ten years. 9634 / day average in that period.
Yeah. If it had been an option, I would have chosen “How the hell should I know?” Since it wasn’t, I couldn’t answer.
10,000 steps is my daily goal, but I probably only hit it around 2 times per week. Other days vary considerable, from 2,000 to 8,000. So, I averaged it out. (roughly)
Without my watch keeping track, I’d have no idea whatsoever. I’m sometimes surprised (in either direction) when I look to see how many steps I have at the end of the day. (I have counted how many steps from our bedroom to our kitchen. I really have to want another glass of wine to make the trek.)
My walking steps vary wildly. I walk 5K most days, but then I might also mow the lawn or do some other kind of yardwork. On the other hand, on duplicate bridge day, not much walking at all happens.
I said 8-10, but who knows.
I addressed that a couple posts above i.e. “singer” would have been a better example. My main point was to see if people actually heard themselves pronouncing words like “eating” because in some places it sounds like “eateen” (as in the -ine in “latrine”). I dont know the phonetics.
I’m on the high side on step count.
If ever a poll needed an “I have no freaking idea” option, it’s the steps poll.
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I need that for the cheese poll, too. I like cheese. I eat cheese. How often? No freaking idea. Probably some weeks i eat it every day and others i don’t have it at all.
Steps? No idea. I work retail, have a mini-farm, and do 98% of the household stuff too.
Cheese? Love it, but, no idea. Sometimes I buy cheese to eat on crackers, salad, etc. Sometimes I eat out and order things with cheese on them.
I don’t keep track of things in that way.
Well, I have a good handle on my cheese consumption.
Every damn day.
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There probably is an occasional day in my life when I don’t eat any cheese; but I figured that’s rare enough that I voted every day.
I had american “cheese” (Kraft slices) earlier. I’m counting that.
The nuclear question was difficult. My reasoning:
- India and Pakistan are so close that the repercussions make this less likely.
- If Russia were so inclined, they probably would have in Ukraine by now.
- “No one before 2045” was a strong contender, but
- Things in the US are so nuts right now, and people seem utterly determined to forget the entire history of the 20th century, that what seemed like a good idea in 1945 will probably seem like a good idea again in the 2030s. I don’t think they’ll be used in this president’s term, or the next one’s.
Four weeks ago I started a ten-week program that my cardiologist asked me to do. They provided me with a fitbit, so I know exactly how many steps per day I take now. I only walk a mile a day (strictly for exercise), and the rest of my steps are on top of that, but I expect to increase my apprx. 4000 steps a day.
I have to return the fitbit at the end of the ten-week period, so I bought one to keep. It helps me to have a tangible guide to assess my progress.