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Cyber_Fetus t1_j7fdg54 wrote

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

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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