Spyke

Pronunciation of places would be impossible, but everyone's geography would improve greatly if the entire world was like that. A logical person would say just use GPS coordinates, nope. I'm going to Ghdftpw

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lemmy.world

what3words.com

I use it all the time in rural first responder work.

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Ah, I wanted to move to couch.yards.honest, but I couldn't put the money together at the time to take the position I was offered out there.

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sh.itjust.works

What's up with the 'u'? I get that the second character advances one position in the alphabet, that pattern holds until 'q' which is "qu"

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

That's because u is q's emotional support letter. They don't like to go anywhere without her.

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Except when q really focuses its mind and can support itself solely on its inner qi.

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lemmy.world

It's a rule in English that "q" is followed by a "u". Always. Really. That's why people like Lovecraft ignored that rule to seem exotic

So someone decided to follow the rule, probably didn't even think about it. "Q" alone just seemed wrong.

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