Why YouTubers (and AI) get these English features wrong [weak forms and deaccenting] (www.youtube.com)

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Skip to 11:18 for the actual linguistics content. The earlier part includes analogy to film/video editing styles. The ad read is also in that earlier section.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Isochrony changes really fast, diachronically speaking

Makes sense. I suppose this very conversation is proof of that. Some people seem to be claiming some varieties of American English lack it, and certainly the video shows that the Influencer sociolect (if you can call it that) lacks it.

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