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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Deebster to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something like "Adams Smith" probably fits the bill. People would hear "Adam Smith"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks so much! I always sucked at riddles I couldn't come up with anything lol