• empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    Stow-ic (Stoic): To be emotionally disconnected, stable, without reaction.

    Sto-ike (Stoich): Slang, of an engine to be running at it’s optimal stoichiometric ratio for combustion

    I spend too much time in car groups.

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      stoichiometric

      Flashbacks to chemistry class where we calculated this shit, get me out!

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      I am running at my optimal stoichiometric ratio. I am above your jest.

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      stoich

      could you use this in a sentence? i’m having a hard time understanding how to use it.

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    Made me snort laugh, Anon read about it enough to identify with it before hearing the word and got made fun of by kids who learned the name from Pewdiepie

  • Fushuan [he/him]
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    Joke’s on you, I don’t know how either of those is pronounced!

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        silly, You assume I know how stow-ic and stoike are pronounced, those symbols are pronounced differently in other languages.