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bethposting
@bethposting

It has been occasionally used by phonologists to represent a hypothetical phoneme in English, which includes both [h] and [ล‹] as its allophones, to illustrate the limited usefulness of minimal pairs to distinguish phonemes. Normally /h/ and /ล‹/ are considered separate phonemes in English, even though a minimal pair for them cannot be constructed, due to their complementary distribution.[1]

basically, in English you only get /h/ at the start of syllables and only get /ล‹/ (the "ng" sound) at the end of syllables. randomly, this is also the case in Korean, where the ใ…‡ letter has dual uses: it represents /ล‹/ at the end of a syllable and no consonant at the start of a syllable. (sadly, h uses the slightly different character แ„’)


garbo
@garbo

i'll die when i'm dead,
stop killing the mandem


belarius
@belarius

Until my blood sugar levels off, it'll be the deaรพ of you.


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