More like [ˈd̪ät̪ä], no long vowel. There's also some disagreements if short /a/ was [ä] or [ɐ], given the symmetry with /e i o u/ as [ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ]. (I can go deeper on this if anyone wants.)
Another thing that people don't often realise, when they say "you should pronounce it like in Latin!", is that Latin /d t/ were different from English/German /d t/. They were considerably less aspirated, and as your transcription shows they were dental.
That's just details though. Your core point (Latin didn't use a diphthong in this word) is 100% correct.
English covers hundreds of accents and multiple English speaking countries. There isn’t just one pronunciation.
I'm listing the variants that I use.
I'm aware that all three languages have heavy internal variation; for example the Portuguese word could be also pronounced as ['dä.ðuʃ], and a lot of N. Italian speakers don't really do the compensatory lengthening that I do.
a specific kind of “R” (I have no English examples on mind
General American rendering of "butter" as [bʌɾɚ] uses it.
Kind of off-topic but "Brazilian Portuguese" is not an actual variety (language or dialect). It's more like a country-based umbrella term, the underlying varieties (like Baiano, Paulistano, etc.) often don't share features with each other but do it with non-Brazilian varieties.
There's a good example of that in your own transcription of the word "arauto" as /a'ɾawto/. You're probably a Sulista speaker, like me; the others would raise that vowel to /u/, regardless of country because they share vowel raising. (Unless we're counting Galician into the bag, as it doesn't raise /o/ to /u/ either. But Galician is better dealt separately from Portuguese.)
PR minus "nortchi", SC minus Florianópolis Desterro, northern RS, Registro-SP.
Desculpe-me pela nerdice não requisitada, ma' é que adoro falar de idiomas.
To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I'm not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.
The other side of it is believing everything is your fault.
Yeah, both are problematic. And for the same reason - the person does not learn to accurately identify when they're responsible for something and should do something about it, although for different reasons.
I was focusing mostly on your incorrect claim about account ages. The reliability of the information (speculation vs. solid info) is another can of worms.
The reason why you see mostly speculation is because nobody knows how the algo work, except people inside Reddit itself. The most that people can do is to analyse patterns, and come up with a hypothesis explaining it; and while doing so by subjective means is by no means optimal, it is better than nothing.
Where’s your critical thinking ?
Critical thinking is to neither change the goalposts once people contradict your claim, nor to conflate hypotheses with gullibleness-based argumentation ("I swear it's true bro").
Ditto - that W3.11 install is just because of the Windows Entertainment Pack, I love a few of the games in it (like Pipe Dream). I don't even know if it's able to connect to the internet!
I started with a Knoppix-based distro, called Kurumin. KDE 3 was the rage back then!
On your main point: the shell might be hard in the beginning, but for most things that you need to use the shell with, people on the internet already had the same issue and shared how to do it. Unless you're actively trying to make something different, like I did with my audio switching script.
And even the sort of situation that you need to use the shell for decreased by a lot from back then to now.
Besides what other users said: if you feel comfortable with SteamOS you might want to give EndeavourOS and Manjaro a check - all three distros are based on Arch Linux, and while Arch is geared towards experienced users the later two try to "sell" it towards a wider audience.
It would mean reddit is discarding the biggest thing that makes it different from all the other algo-driven “engagement”-fueled social platforms.
Yup. And it's a bad trade in its case - because even if it leads to more engagement, it makes it too similar to considerably larger platforms, so there's no point staying in Reddit instead of, say, Facebook.
A good definition of witch hunting would be "to publicly label one or more individuals as belonging to an undesired group, with little to no regard to accuracy". It fits really well what the article claims those users to be doing.
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More like [ˈd̪ät̪ä], no long vowel. There's also some disagreements if short /a/ was [ä] or [ɐ], given the symmetry with /e i o u/ as [ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ]. (I can go deeper on this if anyone wants.)
Another thing that people don't often realise, when they say "you should pronounce it like in Latin!", is that Latin /d t/ were different from English/German /d t/. They were considerably less aspirated, and as your transcription shows they were dental.
That's just details though. Your core point (Latin didn't use a diphthong in this word) is 100% correct.