PrimeErective

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[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 10 points 16 hours ago

You merely adopted the bathroom! I was born in it, moulded by it!

Basically an early version of Wi-Fi calling before Wi-Fi calling was a thing. You signed up for a SIM-free phone number tied to your Google account that allowed you to make calls as long as you had Internet. Calls between US numbers were totally free, even if the Google voice person was in a different country

Anyway, Google voice is still around and has an app. So if you have a Google voice number, you have a totally separate dialer and text message set up, that's distinct from the one for your regular number. But, as I mentioned, the text message part still doesn't support RCS. Pretty embarrassing for Google

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Google voice does not support RCS. Typical Google bullshit

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I, too, want to know what that strap is called... For a friend

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (11 children)
[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

That's rash city, Jake, rash city!

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

The first two have emphasis that imply something different than a simple question. Like you are asking a bunch of people individually, and you are directing each question at a specific person.

The last one would maybe be like, if the person did something weird, and you were sarcastically asking where the are from, to imply that they were raised by wolves, or something like that.

Point being, yes, you can ask like that, but it has different connotations than a simple question, which I think is where you would use the rising intonation.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.

What's your NAme

How OLD (are you)?

Where are you FROm?

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

I guess in this example, "who is your daddy?" Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Could you give some specific examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

24fps vision is a lie told by Hollywood so they can save on film

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