Kimika
joined 9 hours ago
According to everyone here, the sandwich you're supposed to make is:
Peanut butter, butter, honey, banana, pickles (cucumbers if you're impatient), cayenne pepper, and lastly, if you're a Vincent, jam or preserves.
Toasting optional
You're just pushing a gateway drug to peanut butter and pickle sandwiches
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Even if not learned through experience, it can also be learned through critical thinking. One could take a moment to ponder why someone is checking the eggs and could easily arrive at the conclusion they're checking for broken ones.
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Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store
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Or they can demonstrate the greater depths of their ignorance and make a post about it on a social media platform showing they had time to figure it out but couldn't despite it being on their mind the entire time.
Sadly, much of our random interactions and popular public discourse are driven by #2 and #3
I've only ever heard Japanese, Chinese, etc. described as tonal languages, not pitch accents.
You're wondering about languages in the Indo-European language group making distinctions between homonyms/homophones by tone. Tone has a different function in those languages, such as expressing inquiry.
In English, syllable emphasis can be used to distinguish between homonyms (verb presENT vs noun PRESent) and would-be homophones (desSERT vs DEsert)