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.

  • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Anglo-language conversations plus Franco-vocabulary utilization, remains a veritable trick code

    De rien