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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech
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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.
We English wouldn't only drop the first t, we'd drop the h and the final t as well, 'o pota'o... innit
And in my experience (or at least how I as a foreigner was taught the English RP pronounciation), often also the spaces between words.