English has pitch accent too

This may seem obvious to many of you, but it just occurred to me that default (noun) and default (verb) are distinguished only by the ‘pitch accent’.

This will now be my go-to example when someone asks me about how pitch accent works in Japanese.

Just wanted to share my moment of Satori!

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