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.

  • @laughterlaughterEnglish
    7•8 months ago

    I was thinking more of Spanish, but yup. Same thing.

    • @marcosEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Yeah, coming from Portuguese, I know by hearth all of the refined vocabulary to be found in English.

      But the mundane is a whole other world.