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Is it "comrad" or "comrayd"? (hexbear.net)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by OrionsMask@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Which is it? Which do you use? Are there different associations between them?

I've always said it "comrad," but when I started to meet people in orgs, they predominantly say "comrayd" (within the same country).

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

is that a rendering of 同志 in... IPA? doesn't look like IPA to me but I have little knowledge of it

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah it's the Sinological IPA I got from Wiktionary lol

[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

TIL how IPA does tone marks with those small numbers. very cool

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

Well that's how Sinological IPA does it anyway

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