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KBoxter t1_j7fcpne wrote

Reply to comment by Cyber_Fetus in Do tonal language speakers understand each other while whispering? by Paulix_05

you have a really weird way of speaking if "bought" and "bot" are the same word

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Cyber_Fetus t1_j7fdg54 wrote

Cot-caught merger. It covers a good chunk of the US and Canada, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a “weird way of speaking”. But regardless, it was just an example so if you pronounce them differently I’d hope you can manage to come up with two different words that are pronounced the same in your accent.

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neutrinoburrito t1_j7gpufs wrote

Your example is fine and gets the point across. There’s never going to be a perfect example of this since English has so many different nuanced pronunciations of words due to its widespread use. These people are just trying to desperately grasp at a delusion of intellectual superiority through pedantry.

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ffenliv t1_j7h71m3 wrote

You're surprisingly ready to jump down that poster's throat without stopping for a moment to consider it might be a regional thing - never mind that there's a named linguistic phenomenon at play as well.

Where I'm from (Ontario, Canada) there's really no difference in sound between those words.

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