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My fave consonant is the glottal stop ʔ
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My fave consonant is the glottal stop ʔ
Hot take: /ʔ/ is a consonant, and the fact English can't have it in the middle of a word doesn't change that.
Letter Tournament: GLOTTAL STOP vs WYNN
ʔ (Glottal Stop)
SEED: 8
CODEPOINT: U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
PREVIOUS OPPONENT: Small Capital Ash
BIO: this letter. might glottal stop the tournament :)
Ƿ (Wynn)
SEED: 25
CODEPOINTS: U+01BF LATIN SMALL LETTER WYNN, U+01F7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN
PREVIOUS OPPONENT: Small Capital OU
BIO: looks like P, sounds like W.
which is the best letter?
glottal stop
wynn
[link to all polls]
Tell someone to pronounce this to kill them!
ʔ ː ː ː ː
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Glottal Bottle:
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Das Binnen-I wird immer häufiger als eine kurze Pause mitten im Wort mitgesprochen. Was macht das mit unserer Sprache?
Beitrag in der Süddeutschen Zeitung zum Binnen-I und seine Aussprache.
Erratic
Evenings delve into your eye. Lip- picked syllables— a lovely voiceless circle— help the creeping star into their ring. The stone, once close to the temporal zones, now opens up: my soul, you were in the ether with all the other scattershot suns. — Paul Celan, from Glottal Stop (trans. McHugh & Popov)
Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
Paul Celan, Glottal Stop