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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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[โ€“] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. You a special snowflake who is the only human being on planet Earth who doesn't do sandhi. You should go to the nearest university's linguistics department and show off your linguistically unique trait. You could probably make a decent living as a guest speaker at linguistics conventions too.

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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago

I'll leave that to the expert.