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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech (imgs.xkcd.com)
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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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[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

This is some riddle shit I can't figure out

[-] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 14 points 5 months ago

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

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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

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