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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Deebster@programming.dev to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

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Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't need to, i know she that correctly. There are definitely words we pronounce incorrectly but nit that one. You and the OP are conflating your local experience for a global one. I don't live in the US, we enunciate differenrly