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[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

are they? I just said "I didn't know that that was how it is" out loud and both thats sound the same

[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

The A is slightly more emphasized in the second that. It's subtle

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Could be. So you say them exactly the same and not an inflection shift?

[-] variants@possumpat.io 0 points 1 month ago
[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Because you generally put more emphasis on the subject in English

[-] variants@possumpat.io 2 points 1 month ago

I'll try and pay attention next time I have to say that that or if someone else says it. I think reading it and over thinking it makes it sound weird

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I think it depends on if you want to emphasize something specifically or not. Second 'that' is the default it seems, but I first expected 'was' to be emphasized in this sentence

[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

In fluent speech, the conjunction (the first "that") is unstressed, and as a result some speakers reduce the vowel a bit toward schwa. However, if you told those speakers to carefully pronounce each word, I bet they would pronounce the conjunction and the pronoun the exact same same. A more common example of this kind of reduction is the word "to", which is almost always reduced to /tə/ ([tə] ~ [tʊ] ~ [ɾə] depending on dialect and surrounding words) in everyday speech when unstressed.

Fun fact, you can reduce just about every unstressed vowel in English to schwa (if it's not already a schwa) and still be largely understood.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's called weak forms, this video goes into a lot of details about them, has examples of "that that" as well: https://youtu.be/qlbGtEg68x4

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