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12 days ago“Why would I own a car? Our public transportation works fine. Or a watch, since I can already see the time from my mobile phone.”
Staunchly Peircean pragmaticist linguist, phonetician and semiotician. Does translation studies and comparative literature too when time allows. Politically far left, deal with it. Localizes FOSS (eg. KDE Plasma, Vivaldi browser, Handbrake media transcriber).
“Why would I own a car? Our public transportation works fine. Or a watch, since I can already see the time from my mobile phone.”
The humanity does. Well, maybe not “need” it but deserve it. Finding out about the world around us is what we exist for.
“Strictly phonetic”—no. But more-or-less-strictly phonological, yes. Finnish is also one of those.