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

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.

cobysev ,

See, my middle name ends with an S and my last name begins with an S... and my middle name is a pluralized name, so nobody hears the S when I say it in conjunction with my last name. So I've gotten really good at pronouncing the S, stopping for a beat, then saying my last name, without it sounding super weird or robotic.

So properly pronouncing "hot potato" while enunciating the first T doesn't seem too challenging to me.

asteriskeverything ,

This is some riddle shit I can't figure out

Yearly1845 ,

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

asteriskeverything ,

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

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Amusingly, just a couple of days ago we had a post about this same phenomenon in !ausmemes.

https://aussie.zone/post/10395900

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

OOoo wiggley wiggely wiggely

SeabassDan ,

Hop-tay'doh

Subscribe, I love these

papalonian ,

Sounds like I'm exclaiming that something is hot, then clarifying that it was a potato.

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