Mastodawn

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They tried the visual one first, but it's really hard to recognise. Maybe my friends #eyesight is not the best, idk. They tried the series twice (i.e. *twenty* CAPTCHAs) and failed.

They then tried the audio capture instead and immediately gave up. According to my friend, it was very fast spoken #english (my friend is not a native speaker of EN) and they could not understand one word. It did not even sound like #SSBE (#ReceivedPronunciation) which they learnt in #school. No chance!

Justin Aug 4, 2023

I’m used to GOOSE so fronted it gets parsed as FLEECE, but this morning a young woman was ordering coffee with “oat” milk and the GOAT was so fronted, even *in context* I had to backtrack to unparse it as “eight”
#phonetics #sociophonetics #SSBE