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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500
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.
I feel like I often do 1 step above the farthest right, which is doing “guta”, with the t very soft.
“I’mma “guta” go to te sto” is how it comes out when I say it quickly.
I’m gna go t thuh stor