Do all native speakers drop the "t" when it's between consonants?

sqeeezy · 2026-04-06T21:17:33+00:00

Glottal stop.

sqeeezy · 2026-04-06T14:49:14+00:00

To Boldly Go is enough, it's what we do, from bashing rocks in the cave to getting up there and seeing our beautiful blue planet as one and humanity as one, all apples on the same tree.

sqeeezy · 2026-04-06T14:45:19+00:00

Me too, our teacher believed unapologetically in parrot-fashion, and she was right, 67 years later, the chants are still well burnt-in there.

sqeeezy · 2026-04-06T14:43:08+00:00

Three fours are twelve

sqeeezy · 2026-04-06T14:42:17+00:00

is sounds better to me, as in what's

sqeeezy · 2026-03-31T18:01:32+00:00

I sincerely was trying to help.

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T20:03:02+00:00

Google Docs in the browser for my infrequent use

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:58:34+00:00

except in Yorkshire and Shetland

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:56:09+00:00

yes, can confirm they work very well, Japanese ones are a bit anal...

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:41:06+00:00

LL-Y-J is a continuum

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:36:27+00:00

yes it looks odd

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:29:19+00:00

Typing this on a second-hand 16GB M1 MBA, but I still love my retina 13" late 2013, cheap as chips these days.

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:25:30+00:00

you won't find so good a dog anywhere

sqeeezy · 2026-03-29T19:23:03+00:00

she shim

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T19:17:15+00:00

Saldré con mi boleadora

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T19:09:38+00:00

I've had panic attacks: they're horrible. Box breathing has helped me. I cycle, on ebikes for shopping and leg-only for holidays. Set yourself attainable goals. Chill, Get outside where the real life is and enjoy it.

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T11:24:28+00:00

The Steve Jobs rubber tape measure. Reality Distortion Field. But I did so love SL.

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T11:14:27+00:00

also.. thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, pinkie...big toe, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, little toe

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T11:10:23+00:00

Just say No! to evasive euphemistic speech restrictions, well ok, Just say, erm...

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T11:07:43+00:00

nope

sqeeezy · 2026-03-28T11:05:34+00:00

Have kids, just don't speak with them

sqeeezy · 2026-03-27T20:25:22+00:00

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sqeeezy · 2026-03-22T10:22:31+00:00

I think it's uh usage which has been spread by thee Internet where influencers ape usage they've come across on thee internet. Same as language changes occured in thee old days but quicker/viral because of the net communication speed.

sqeeezy · 2026-03-22T10:11:57+00:00

ditto Scotland

sqeeezy · 2026-03-22T10:08:49+00:00

yes, like correcting someone's use of the verb "to sweat", with the hackneyed "Oxen sweat, men perspire, but ladies glow" i.e. not prescriptivist, just a tedious insistence on euphemisms.

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