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It’s also not necessarily about how native speakers pronounce things, his advice is pretty specific to someone going from Chinese (Mandarin I assume?) to English. Listen to how they speak in Chinese, there’s very clear stops between words probably because it’s a tonal language but when you do that in English it sounds unnatural. Dropping the Ts is a good way to make it flow from one word to the next if you are struggling to make them sound natural

Not to derail but… Am I the only native English speaker who pronounces my “t”? Unless I’m speaking in a more American accent (sometimes when I say certain things/or am trying to emphasise the American in my accent, it comes out), then it sounds less pronounced, but otherwise I pronounce it pretty strongly.

No you’re not! It’s a regional thing, even in america. In my accent for example sometimes I pronounce the Ts and sometimes I don’t

I was watching a WIRED documentary on US accents on youtube, and according to that doc the replacement of “t” with a glottal stop when it’s the last letter in a word/syllable is in several US accents, but especially prevalent in Southern California, and this particular dialect quirk seems to have originated in the Indigenous American communities in California.

Hi I'm American movie director, here's my idea for a live action movie based on a widely beloved series: Ok so a team of US soldiers are transported to another world.

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I was gonna make a joke about sonic, then remembered the sonic movies, then I was gonna make a joke about pacman, and remembered pixels. So really the point here is that the United States is Satan.

Girls parents are always being like "your name is a sacred gift we gave you and so how dare you change it!" and the name in question is like Scrandrew or something

Reminding everyone to include their favourite edition of D&D! This is important data. Just edit your post to include it. :)

It's a shame Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is one of those parodies whose author clearly feels the source material is beneath them and thus doesn't put much thought into how they're sending it up because a Regency zombie apocalypse that properly Examines the Implications sounds like a really fun time.

Like, my guy, so much of contemporary zombie media is subtextually really about class that if you're sticking zombies in your Regency romance and completely failing to draw a line between the class-driven subtext the former and the class-driven text of the latter, you are a hack.

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I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

I don’t know how you got a good grade in being a passenger on an airline but that’s a totally normal thing to achieve and I’m not seething with jealousy at all.

The whole "Elvis sighting" thing is hilarious because, like, the first documented career Elvis impersonators began working over twenty years before the guy even died. I wonder why a public figure who has a whole industry of people who look and sound like him would generate an unusual number of posthumous sightings? It Is A Mystery.

Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.