Enunciating your Ts
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What is up with people pronouncing T sounds by catching their throat momentarily rather than using their tongue? I hear more people doing this. Maybe I’m just tuned into it. It’s the second most cringe way to enunciate something, after the immortally cringe “axe” in place of “ask”. Once heard a lettered scientist coworker use that one. Unfortunate.
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What is up with people pronouncing T sounds by catching their throat momentarily rather than using their tongue? I hear more people doing this. Maybe I’m just tuned into it. It’s the second most cringe way to enunciate something, after the immortally cringe “axe” in place of “ask”. Once heard a lettered scientist coworker use that one. Unfortunate.
I don't recognize pronouncing T sounds by catching their throat momentarily.
I do notice that valley girl thing that the vodka ad girl does on the ESPN Pardon the Interruption show, she kind of growls the last syllable of her sentences. That is getting to be more common.
And you comment about axe is racist. The spelling should be changed to axe as part of the reparations package.
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I don't recognize pronouncing T sounds by catching their throat momentarily.
I do notice that valley girl thing that the vodka ad girl does on the ESPN Pardon the Interruption show, she kind of growls the last syllable of her sentences. That is getting to be more common.
And you comment about axe is racist. The spelling should be changed to axe as part of the reparations package.
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This "T" pronunciation is called a glottal T. Common in words like button or cotton. But there are degrees, and it hits me in my ears lately when I listen to some people talk.
@Horace said in Enunciating your Ts:
This "T" pronunciation is called a glottal T. Common in words like button or cotton. But there are degrees, and it hits me in my ears lately when I listen to some people talk.
Subculture thing.
