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  • The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

    English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

    English doesn’t have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn’t stand out to anyone because it doesn’t otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I’ve read that in Japanese the “F” in “Mount Fuji” is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.

















  • topherclay@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2908: Moon Armor Index
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    1 year ago

    I think part of it is that Mt Everest is a lot smaller than you’d think when you’re looking at this scale. The moon is only 2% of the Earths volume so when you spread it over the Earths surface it’s really like a thin thin film to cover the whole surface. But the truth is that all of human experience is an even thinner film smeared across the surface.