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Jokes that only work in text.
Edit: Also, I appreciate you @cm0002@infosec.pub - you're doing the Lord's work!
Do you pronounce being and being differently?
In isolation, no. But in this meme they are pronounced differently because intonation is different between the two phrases, and as exemplified here: inTOnation is AN inteGRAL part OF lanGUAGE.
"for the time BEing" vs. "for the TIME being"
In both cases you're stressing the modifier, but in the former "being" is the modifier, while in the latter "time" is, so we get a prosodic stress contrast between the two.
Edit: Note that it's actually somewhat unexpected to stress adjectives that come before like this ("*I did it for the BIG apple" is weird in a neutral context where you're not contrasting with a small apple, for example), which makes me think that "TIME being" may actually be an example of compound stress. Here's a comment I wrote a while back with some more info about English compounds for anyone interested.
Any phonologists that specialize in prosody here who can shed more light on this?
This might vary by accent, but the being in the first phase is often pronounced more like one syllable, like "beeng". In the second phase, I would say the "be" does have stress but less than "time" does.