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  • Persi@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.worldBarcelona
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    2 months ago

    The Wikipedia entry has a pronunciation guide:

    English: [bɑːrsəˈloʊnə]

    Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə]

    The first a is a schwa and the o isn’t rounded. Honestly, it looks quite similar to English, to the point where there might be some English dialect that sounds exactly like that.


  • Persi@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHard Read
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    2 months ago

    Your assumption might be the case for frankenstein, it’s a relatively short book.

    The parent is most likely talking about books like the count of monte cristo. It goes on for more than a thousand pages, but was originally serialised over a couple years.

    Similar things happen to older books. Current day editions of don quixote include don quixote part 2, which was a sequel published a decade after the first.









  • Persi@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldgoddamnit
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    8 months ago

    I felt the same way about webp when it came out.

    In practice it doesn’t really matter:

    • if you’re encoding the file you know how you’re doing it.
    • if you’re receiving the file, you get the pixels you get no matter how it was encoded.
    • if you’re sending the image through some third party service, they’re going to reencode and mangle it anyway so there’s no point in worrying.

    Also, it turned out that even if it’s quite good, lossless webp is rarely seen in the wild because svg is more convenient.