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Racists like Linguoboy should not be tolerated.

Not a specific word, but rather some phonemes. What specific articulation are your coronals? Maybe /r/ as well but that's barely coronal. I'd be interested in any languages, but primarily English. I've heard (IIRC) that the distribution between apical and laminal /s/ is random throughout dialects, ...

How do you pronounce "various" and "rule"? I'm particularly curious as to whether non-rhotic speakers have a syllable final rhotic in the bisyllabic pronunciation or the first, or an onset /ɹj/. I'm not sure how one objectively distinguishes the two possibilities. I don't have a...

[hr] Chinese (Mandarin): Teresa Teng - 月亮代表我的心 (24.1 million) I think the biggest lesson of this bullet point is that the Chinese internet doesn't use Spotify. (And possibly that Cantonese-speakers use it more than Mandarin-speakers.) Could also be that there's some other more popular Mandarin song...

I've been trying to make a list of the most popular song in each language. I'm primarily using Spotify plays as the measure of popularity, though that might not be representative for certain songs. It's hard because most sites/services do not let you search by language or identify the language at al...

His precise words were: ‘I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want’. If that’s not supporting a Russian invasion, I don’t know what is. That it’s a hypothetical scenario doesn’t make it better or excuse it. If a Russian invasion of Kazakhstan were the only way to prevent a genocide, ...

Of course not consciously, but everyone who talks about things frames things. In this context, his framing was that he talked about countries "not paying there bills", when there aren't any actual bills involved. He is talking about NATO defense expenditure commitments, which have been an...

In which "context" would a "tiny isolated phrase" about telling Russia to do whatever the hell it wants to my country, ending in a gruesome death for me, either be appropriate, or be something that I should accept, respect, or support? The context is a hypothetical scenario that...

Trump didn't "frame" anything. Of course not consciously, but everyone who talks about things frames things. In this context, his framing was that he talked about countries "not paying there bills", when there aren't any actual bills involved. He is talking about NATO defense ex...

We already knew that was his position, but now it's official: Trump has openly said that back in the White House, he would tell Putin to "do whatever the hell he wants" to Putin. (All the English-language news outlets I could find are running an AP report that accepts Trump's own ridiculo...

It is normally taken as a given that /t/ before /n/ or /ən/~/ɪn/ in most NAE varieties is realized as [ʔ]. I noticed recently that this actually only applies when the preceding syllable is stressed. It does not apply to words like hesitant or militant , which undergo neither flapping nor glottaliza...

It is normally taken as a given that /t/ before /n/ or /ən/~/ɪn/ in most NAE varieties is realized as [ʔ]. I noticed recently that this actually only applies when the preceding syllable is stressed. It does not apply to words like hesitant or militant , which undergo neither flapping nor glottaliza...

Nahuatl canauhtli "duck"
French canard "duck"

miracle [ˈme̞ɻʷɵkʰu] illustrate [ˈe̞ɫəs̞t̞͡ʂʷæ͡ɪt] irritate [ˈe̞ɻʷətˢæ͡ɪtˢ] What’s weird is that it only seems to happen in a few words, e.g. ‘mirror’ is still [ˈmɪɻʷɐ]. Are all those /r/'s really labialized? I only have labialization/labiodentalization word-initially and in the onset of a stressed...

I have heard this lowering in m i lk, van i lla, s i nce, dis i ntegrate, and antisem i tic, by speakers of various dialects of American English. I'm pretty sure in the case of antisemitic it's a lexical difference, and not an accent-based sound change. It may be because there's a lot of common wor...

Thank you, interesting. If I tried to pronounce "ultra" in English, I'd probably use either the CUT vowel or the PUT vowel for the u. I also have the CUT vowel, but a lot of Australian speakers have mergers before vocalised /l/. So /ɐl/ ends up being more like [ɒw] or even raised all the ...

I, too, have quite a bit of interchange between the Cot and Caught sets, despite not merging them. Another word where I can't seem to make up my mind is "jaw." In conservative accents the cot vowel cannot occur without a following consonant, so "jaw" has to have the caught vowel.

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:53 pm Are there people who say [bʊf] for "boof", [fʊf] for "foof", [pʊf] for "poof", or [lʊfə] for "loofah"?

Australian English has /bʊf/ "clumsy/stupid person" and /pʊf/ "gay man", but those probably aren't the words you have in mind.

I just noticed this, because both words appeared in the same Metafilter post, from two different people: cronch (for crunch) monch (for munch) Both applied to dogs. Interesting sound symbolism here... usually a more open vowel is less cute, not more so. Replacing vowels with o or oo to make words &...