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.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I keep fucking saying that I’ve been doing that, and it doesn’t fucking happen.

    Y’all motherfuckers apparently never come into the mountains where speech is slooooow by default.

    Even speeding up on purpose, it doesn’t happen. Which is why I made the original comment in the first place. Wouldn’t waste my fucking time otherwise. Jfc people can be assholes over nothing at all