• @Siethron
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    910 months ago

    I’d argue ‘f’ they don’t press hard but they lightly touch

    • @Soggy
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      3510 months ago

      Bro what are you doing with your lips? “F” is top teeth on lower lip.

      • @agent_flounder
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        1810 months ago

        What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?

      • @Siethron
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        410 months ago

        My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.

        • @[email protected]
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          710 months ago

          you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it’s generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.

        • @agent_flounder
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          310 months ago

          That would interrupt airflow would it not?

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.

            Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.

              • @[email protected]
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                210 months ago

                Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.

          • @Siethron
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            210 months ago

            You don’t purse the lips together, they’re lightly touching allowing air to go through