#phonetics memes

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

girls don’t want boys, girls want in-depth linguistic analyses of potoooooooo

[queerinigo]

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Me when my ESL friend asks what vacuity is

No one:

English spelling reform:

My revision notes when I forget what a voiced alveolar nasal consonant is

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

but why did we name them “vowels” when we could have just called them “go consonants”

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

me at 3am: *literally just trying to sleep*

my brain: ethcalator :)

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

only one of these is going in my mouth