#glottalstop — Public Fediverse posts

At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.

I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.

To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!

#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop

I'm fascinated with linguistics. My last post made me wonder..
Does anyone else notice that Gen Z English speakers tend to have a glottal stop in their speech, i.e. "certain" = "cer-in" and so on. I notice it regardless of their region, so it's not a regional accent.
As someone who had a mild speech impediment as a kid, I typically don't comment on speech, but admittedly listening to this drives me crazy.
Maybe I'm just old. 😂
#genz #glottalstop #speech

I was trying to say "there are no seals in Seal Beach" -- "ʻAʻohe sila o Seal Beach" and my kumu corrected me because it came out like "ʻAʻohe sila ʻo Seal Beach." I need to get used to putting a #glide between the "a" of "sila" and the possessive "o," otherwise it becomes a name-indicator "ʻo". #speakhawaiian #olelohawaii #languages #glottalstop #okina

My #1 problem trying to speak #Hawaiian is that my. Tongue. Wants. To. Put. A. Full. Glottal. Stop. Between. Every. Word. Especially when I am trying to speak clearly!!!! That is bad in Hawaiian because the glottal stop is a component of a word (or not), and you canʻt just throw them in there or you might change the meaning. #speakhawaiian #olelohawaii #languages #glottalstop #okina

Three years ago (25 Nov. 2019), I tweeted one of my favourite revelations about glottal stops:

Let's take a moment to appreciate that there are two different vertical lines, which can represent the glottal stop /ʔ/, and they both have descriptive, diminutive names. I don't know which is cuter: the “little stick” (palochka, ⟨ӏ⟩ ) or the “little skip” (saltillo, ⟨ꞌ⟩ ).

#saltillo #palochka #GlottalStop #Unicode :Unicode: