xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

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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.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Now I’m just sitting here picturing you saying stuff like “Careful don’t touch that! That pan is ho!”