whaaaaaaat

me too!! (if that wasn’t obvious from my question…)

i feel like i get asked about this every time i teach intro

it was me

paraguay win

update: i tried the pie and the pie in american cuisine was indeed a very iconic pie (i also had the pie in Arkansas)

personally i think they could’ve made a few more explicit references to the fact that it’s a pie in this sentence

do you mean, like, the unicode decomposition?? or just vibes?

absolutely! a lot of people seem to carry a tacit assumption that syllable = morpheme, which is mostly true for a lot of languages! but also it’s very untrue for many languages at the same time, one of which happens to be English

and salad refers to an advertisement about someone named Sal, i presume!

i think “water” is an obvious truncation of “waiter”, since waiters bring you water. and [wait+er] is definitely polymorphemic.

sure, “salad” etymologically polymorphemic, but that isn’t cognitively accessible to like any english speaker