i had a vision of this going to court and a phoneticist expert witness being tasked with figuring out whether it’s ɪm or əm and nd or nð and past tense or present based on a comprehensive study of his upbringing and accent lmao <a href="https://twitter.com/CaolanRob/status/1765738133876879637">https://twitter.com/CaolanRob/status/1765738133876879637</a>

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i had a vision of this going to court and a phoneticist expert witness being tasked with figuring out whether it’s ɪm or əm and nd or nð and past tense or present based on a comprehensive study of his upbringing and accent lmao https://twitter.com/CaolanRob/status/1765738133876879637

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ɪ vs ə vowel reduction is incidentally one of the most accent+context dependent parts of english, pain for making a phonetic alphabet

i couldn’t tell you why i say “-zɪz” for roses but it’s a deep impulse from primary school cos of the clash w/ serbian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_close_front_vowels#Weak_vowel_merger

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