2023-04-28

Woke up with an alarming sore throat, which was gone two hours later. This is new to me.
I helped my mom and dad [Enable FaceTime calling on the Apple Watch](https://youtu.be/NLPQ-Vo0myQTime https://youtu.be/NLPQ-Vo0myQaudio calling on the Apple Watch](https://youtu.be/NLPQ-Vo0myQ) and had them try it on each other. It worked beautifully.

When the iPhone is in the range of the Apple Watch, one can start a Facetime audio call to another using the Watch only. The sound is clear enough for a brief call.

Soon later, I tried this with RP in the US (I'm in Taiwan for the moment) but it failed. I was able to initiate the FaceTime audio call using my Watch, but I was forced to talk using the iPhone's microphone; the Watch's face was confusing as to whether the call has been started. This entirely different experience using the same Apple products and supposedly the same method is rather frustrating.

Correcting my prons one at a time

(Note on the SAMPA phonetic transcription｜SAMPA音標說明)

A Hong Kong Chinese blogger about English dictionaries and grammar whose views I often dismiss as too dogmatic points out how the first syllable of occasion being only /@/, not ever /O/ or /oU/. I occasionally do /oU/ and thought it a systematic option. Before I chalked this off as yet another uninformed post, I looked it up and it turns out I was wrong. None of the reputable English-to-English dictionaries (about 10+ of them) list /oU/ as an alternative. Well, this is perhaps the reason I have not unfollowed him.