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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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It would be far more consistent with the pronunciation of other similar words.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mate just use IPA, at that point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IPA is less readable, also this is an orthographic alphabet, the true letter count is much smaller, and it actually gets even smaller if you use the "sloppy" version, which is basically just grabbing an Alphabet language Gboard for þ ð ŋ and ſ, using ue oe and ae as needed, and using u o i e a as you would their dotted (or undotted in i's case) counterparts and just hoping context makes clear what the literal text doesn't necessarily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You designed this for GBoard?

That explains it, I guess...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Would you believe me if I told you that the dot letters were actually what made up the majority of what isn't in the keyboard normally?