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

submitted 3 months ago by Deebster@programming.dev to c/linguistics@mander.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

explainxkcd.com for #2942

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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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