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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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[–] GTG3000 8 points 5 months ago (20 children)

And in my case, it'd be more like /gna/. And yes I do pronounce the "t" in hot potato.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I feel like it's the glottal T. I know for me, personally, my tongue doesn't touch my teeth, but there is still a T sound. I am not British, though I am from Jersey (New).

[–] GTG3000 1 points 5 months ago

My tongue definitely touches the teeth/roof of mouth there. I do swallow the vowels though.

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