• @Soggy
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    3511 months ago

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

    • @agent_flounder
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      1811 months ago

      What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?

    • @Siethron
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      411 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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        711 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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        311 months ago

        That would interrupt airflow would it not?

        • @[email protected]
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          211 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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              211 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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          211 months ago

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