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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/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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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Lol is that what happens when they have an official institute that dictates correct French? "Oh it's not slang, it's verlan!"

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