• @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