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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
This entire thread is /c/badlinguistics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heater⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Always nice to see someone spreading the word about VX!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I love puns! I just thought this was a good opportunity to drop some interesting linguistic knowledge about prosody.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My comment was based on fluent speech, not careful speech.

I’m entertaining the idea that some of the commenters here may speak varieties (or even idiolects) where the two pronunciations have merged, but I think the more likely explanation is that they’re laypeople who (like many native speakers) aren’t able to detect stress contrasts in their own speech.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Idiomatic phrases usually (but not always) retain the stress pattern of their original syntax even after they lexicalize. See: “the CAT’s out of the BAG” vs. “the CLAM’S out of the POND” and “kick the BUCKet” vs. “beat the MONkey”.

So, while I agree with you that “time being” (and probably all of “for the time being”, for that matter) is idiomatic, its prosody has fossilized from its original syntax in which “being” modified “time”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s really interesting that they sound the same to you! I’d expect both to have merged to the “for the TIME being” pronunciation if that were the case - does that match your intuition?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
No, but 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”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Jokes that only work in text.
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