How native speakers pronounce “someone”

So I’m live streaming one day, and someone in my live chat said, “Maya, if we raise $500,000,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

They're these very tiny, very, very charming New World monkeys. Someone originally bought them as pets online, but then, after years of inadequate care,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

started well as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me and for the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

true your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life don't be trapped by Dogma which is living with

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Life is effort. Why wouldn’t I try? I spent far too long believing that joy was for someone more deserving than me. I spent even longer believing contentment was ambition's worst enemy,

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

I made it just in time, but they had given away my seat to someone else, so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

a train operator called 911 in a panic, afraid that he might have hit something or someone on the tracks. Now this is very difficult to access.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

bookstores in Nashville closed, and after waiting around for someone else to open a bookstore, I decided to do it myself.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

but as a twentysomething, soon Emma would pick her family when she partnered with someone and created a family of her own. I told Emma the time to start picking your family is now.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Do you eat Lucky Charms, or do you eat a healthy breakfast? When someone snaps at you, do you snap back, or do you show a little bit of grace?

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

how extreme would you go? What would you say to someone that would make the argument that, you know, even

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

And this I said to you like years ago, I said, "Sal, if someone would make a device that just had Khan

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

Anyone want to Someone has to make this. Do you I mean do you agree with that?

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

Well, there were 40 of us to start with, and every time I heard someone's name called, I would give out the heartiest cheer.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

We feel grateful but don’t express it. want to reach out to offer support to someone in need but hold back. We’d like to be open and honest in our relationships,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

So behave next year -- someone might say something nice about you." (Laughter)

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

But if we underestimate how positively our efforts to reach out and connect with someone will go, we won't use that power that we have.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

than the complimenters imagined they would. When we ask people to express their gratitude to someone they love, they leave their recipients feeling even better

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Performing random acts of kindness, reaching out and asking for help, expressing support to someone in need, being open and honest in our relationships

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

When I need help, I’m less reluctant to ask for it. When I know someone needs some support, I’m not as embarrassed to reach out and offer it --

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

And there it was, the choice. Do you reach out and connect with someone? Do you engage with them, do you approach,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

when you think about connecting with a stranger, or having a deep conversation with someone, except multiplied by 100 or 1,000.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

when they reach out to engage with, to connect with, to pull someone else close to them. And it gave me data-driven courage

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

well, now I suddenly have something to attach the learning to. This is why it kills me if someone's like, "Oh, I don't like science because it's boring."

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

There's also a ton of super boring microcontroller tutorial videos online. So when someone came by and stole a package from my porch, I decided to dedicate a year of my life

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

and that person becomes a patient. You or someone you love will be that patient sometime very soon. How will you talk to your doctors?

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

but they're trapped in a race where anyone who slows down gets overtaken by someone who doesn't. If one company pauses for safety, another one takes the market.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

You lie there and you think, if I don't build this, someone worse will. AI is the oxygen crisis of our era,

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

It just requires more of the same technology. Someone you work with will get it first, and you'll hold out for a while,

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

But I needed more. I needed someone who was absolutely relentless. I found Harvey.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

and we were listening to these meetings and these speeches, hoping, hoping that someone would come and save our lives. And it's so important, when I sit in that chair,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

who are now listening to today's leaders, hoping that someone would not turn a blind eye on their suffering. And it's about continuously, continuously fighting and never giving up.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

in the sense that you either believe in human values or not. You either believe in the right of someone else to live, whether they pick one religion or not.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

and asked him to give up on those people, he said, "No, if you're going to kill someone, you have to kill me first."

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

It's a code of promise. When you promise to protect someone, you do it with your life.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

An algorithmic prediction about future disease can make someone's insurance premiums go up, leading to worse health outcomes from stress alone.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

but on who we think they will become. When we predict someone's future as if it was the weather, we're treating them with disrespect.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

Just checking whether anything might be going wrong and giving an early alarm to someone or something like that? PS: Most people are not as reckless --

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

"I don't understand how you can be partners with someone you're not romantic with." Understandable as a reaction

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

that in order to avoid the possibility of someone else feeling uncomfortable, We'll negotiate against ourselves.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

because in a couple minutes, I'm actually going to randomly call on someone based on your seat to have you come up

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

can see where this is going. What we found is that even when we're talking to someone who just lost a negotiation to us, we tend to bend over backwards.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

People layered on the compliments to someone who they just beat in a negotiation, telling them how great they are.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

of these types of interactions. How do you feel when you interact with someone over and over again who's giving off these kinds of brittle smiles?

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

you know, arms crossed, these types of things. After a lifetime of interacting with someone who engages in anxious niceness,

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

who loves giving this general, nice feedback, and you have someone who works for you, and a recruiter calls, maybe a past employee,

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

a recruiter calls you, or someone asks you for a letter of recommendation, the kinds of things you're going to put are going to be like,

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

Yes, I said we're going to the bedroom. So imagine it's the case that you just had sex with someone for the first time. OK, we're all there, we've done a lot of mentalizing today.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

All right, I want to see a show of hands: how many of you have unfriended someone on Facebook because they said something offensive about politics or religion,

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

and where even the most trivial of issues have someone fighting both passionately for it and against it, it's not normal. Pew Research did a study of 10,000 American adults,

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

And we do the exact same thing. We're sitting there having a conversation with someone, and then we remember that time that we met Hugh Jackman in a coffee shop.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

and one thing that she took away from it was that for friendship to happen, someone has to be brave. So be brave.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

There is intimate loneliness, which is the desire for someone to be very intimate with. There's also relational loneliness,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

There's also relational loneliness, which is the desire for someone that feels as close to us as a friend might. And then there's collective loneliness,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And look, I know, it takes effort and energy to actually pay attention to someone, but if you can't do that, you're not in a conversation.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

that "I can never feel safe around anybody," even when someone is safe, they're still holding that assumption and that judgment, right?

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

and then overcoming what you call covert avoidance or that urge to sort of mentally check out when you're meeting someone new. What are some of the other ways that you recommend people try to use

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Those are the people to try to connect with versus, you know, someone who's been here for a while and already has an established network. So I knew this guy's a transitioner

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And at that language exchange meetup, I meet someone else who's cool, and I say, you know, “Do you want to come to this Lucha Libre wrestling match with me?”

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And the most important quality that they look for is someone who makes them feel like they matter. So for me, if I want to connect with someone,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

is someone who makes them feel like they matter. So for me, if I want to connect with someone, it's not about me trying to impress them.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

But in general, when you join this event that's repeated over time, you want to start generating exclusivity with someone in that group. Exclusivity means you develop memories

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

to create more intimacy, things like being vulnerable with someone, being generous with them

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

They feel like they like one another more. But when you're vulnerable with someone who's avoidantly attached, that doesn't necessarily happen.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

then I think you should try to pivot, right? But just because someone responded dismissively to your vulnerability, it might mean that they have their own issues to work out.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

where you talked about the concept of super friends. So what makes someone a super friend, and how can we all strive to be super friends?

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Again, this isn't about, you know, being delusional. If someone's clearly indicating that they're not interested in a friendship with you, then move on.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Before you start scrolling, send a text message. Send a DM to someone you otherwise may not have reached out to. If you're feeling really ambitious,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

I want you to think back on the last time you had a positive connection with someone. Doesn't matter how long it was.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Could have been a friend, colleague, someone you met for the first time, but you felt more open with them.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

and share more about yourself, and give someone else the opportunity to share more in return. For instance, if you're on a remote call,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

But just like you notice when someone's nodding but clearly not listening, complimenting you but clearly doesn't mean it,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

which instead went to the client. Recently went to hug someone at work who instead was going in for the fist bump,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

things like apologizing for a misdirected, snarky text or correcting someone when they've said your name wrong. Why is that?

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

that rewards us with raises and promotions and likes when someone else approves. An approval mindset isn't all bad.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

I'm a recovering overachiever, and the minute someone else sets a target for me, I'm in motion.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

You're adapting. But you're doing it for someone else. You're doing it for external reasons.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

An approval mindset is when you decide to change to meet someone else's expectations. In this mindset, your biggest, beefiest goals come from outside of you.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

that's the greatest risk of all. It makes me cringe to have to correct someone about my name. It makes me cringe even more to imagine walking through life

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

It makes me cringe even more to imagine walking through life as someone who allows other people to call her the wrong name. Both of them are a risk.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

are you going to use that spark to ignite your own improvement or to feed a fire of someone else's making? And are you going to purposely look for those ick moments,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

What about me or my experience might someone look at and consider to be typical? It could be my upbringing.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

are what most of us want when we think about support. I want someone to identify their privilege. I want somebody to actually hear my circumstances and experience,

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

It's considering food allergies. It's being willing to accept correction when you mispronounce someone's name or misgender them.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

What did get me moving was a social interaction. Someone invited me to a meeting, but couldn't manage to fit me in

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

And our first question from the audience. OK, from Facebook, someone asks, "How do you know whether what you're experiencing is burnout

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

And it turns out that if you feel like you're isolated, there's probably someone on the other side of that wall, it turns out, who wants just as much as you to connect with someone else.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

there's probably someone on the other side of that wall, it turns out, who wants just as much as you to connect with someone else. And we've been isolated

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

We're going to be healthier and stronger when we work together. There's probably someone already waiting who also wants the kind of relationship that you are desiring.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

It even has its own cute nickname, the cuddle hormone, because it's released when you hug someone. But this is a very small part of what oxytocin is involved in.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Your biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel, instead of bottling it up.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Your stress response wants to make sure you notice when someone else in your life is struggling so that you can support each other.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

So when you reach out to others under stress, either to seek support or to help someone else, you release more of this hormone,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

It seems amazing to me that a belief about stress can make so much difference to someone's life expectancy. How would that extend to advice,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

How would that extend to advice, like, if someone is making a lifestyle choice between, say, a stressful job and a non-stressful job,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

allows boys to feel good about who they are rather than feeling uncomfortable for trying to be someone they're not. It’s different than simply being praised or rewarded for achievements

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

is at the end of the day, we'll have students gather in a circle to offer an appreciation for someone or something. Open it up to an apology

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

So if you're grumpy and want to send a hostile text, how about either sending a nice one to someone who needs it or stowing your phone?

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

In the US, “What do you do?” is often the first question we ask when we meet someone new. This is drilled into us from an early age.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

So the next time you're at a party, instead of asking someone, "What do you do?" I encourage you to add two small words to your question.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED