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

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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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[-] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

As a non native English speaker, I had to read your comments to understand the "Hot potato" one... Seems that I'm not as fluent in English as I thought (my accent is shit)

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

"hu- p-taydoh"

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