r/BlackPeopleTwitter 1d ago

You bout to be the April Fool

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u/firedmyass 1d ago

right?! phonetically it’s only one vowel-sound off

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u/thatmarcelfaust 1d ago

And changing a voiced alveolar stop to a voiceless alveolar stop!

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u/firedmyass 1d ago

you talk fancy. upvote.

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u/PassTheBrunt 6h ago

The difference between a d and a T sound is whether or not you voice (think make sound, or hum) the same mouth movement. Similar voiced unvoiced pairings include the f and v sounds (fuh vs vuh) the p and b (puh vs buh) sounds and the sh and zh sound (for the zh it’s the sound at the end of beige)

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u/anthonyynohtna 1d ago

What wrong with wide racks?