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Here you stand blowing raspberries at my phonemic skills. Please close your lips. Just listen. Learn of bilabial trills. You may call me an animal for my alveolar clicks, for in America its only real use is for catcalling chicks. And not many understand a velar implosive stop, that the words are the gurgle of a doughnut shop cop. And yes,  my pharyngeal fricative sounds like something's amiss. But its not always contempt, like some puppet show hiss. So, if you just could excuse my pulmonic ingressive, I promise, If it feels like it hurts, I will be singly expressive. I guess all I can say is that when you hear what I say, remember, it more than just words that I try to convey.
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 8:46 AM UTC
On Consonantal Sounds
Here you stand blowing raspberries at my phonemic skills. Please close your lips. Just listen. Learn of bilabial trills. You may call me an animal for my alveolar clicks, for in America its only real use is for catcalling chicks. And not many understand a velar implosive stop, that the words are the gurgle of a doughnut shop cop. And yes,  my pharyngeal fricative sounds like something's amiss. But its not always contempt, like some puppet show hiss. So, if you just could excuse my pulmonic ingressive, I promise, If it feels like it hurts, I will be singly expressive. I guess all I can say is that when you hear what I say, remember, it more than just words that I try to convey.
a poet's take on linguistics -------------------------------------
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 8:46 AM UTC
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