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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: garbon on August 05, 2009, 09:50:38 PM

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Question: Well?
Option 1: Yes votes: 25
Option 2: No votes: 1
Option 3: I don't know what this is about. votes: 2
Title: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: garbon on August 05, 2009, 09:50:38 PM
I usually do, but depending on the day and time...
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: Neil on August 05, 2009, 10:14:34 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 05, 2009, 09:50:38 PM
I usually do, but depending on the day and time...
You should always strive to pronounce words properly.
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: Monoriu on August 05, 2009, 10:14:47 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: derspiess on August 06, 2009, 12:03:51 AM
Don't pretty much all white people pronounce the t?

grabon: any other street talk you like to use?
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: BuddhaRhubarb on August 06, 2009, 12:08:13 AM
Unless I'm sho drunkhic ican schpheak probberry
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: BVN on August 06, 2009, 04:07:21 AM
As we use the same word in my language and we pronounce the "t", I do the same in english.

But who pronounces "best" without the "t"?
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: Monoriu on August 06, 2009, 04:10:47 AM
Quote from: BVN on August 06, 2009, 04:07:21 AM

But who pronounces "best" without the "t"?

A lot of Chinese do not pronounce the t.  No Chinese word end with a "t" sound. 
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 06, 2009, 04:30:10 AM
Blacks in DC drop a lot of consonants.  As in:

Washinton Poas, fitty sen! Washinton Poas, fitty sen!
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: Josquius on August 06, 2009, 05:20:12 AM
If you don't you're saying a totally different word.

QuoteA lot of Chinese do not pronounce the t.  No Chinese word end with a "t" sound. 
Can't you do the Japanese thing and say bestu, besto (yum, gravy) or whatever would be more natural in Chinese?
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 06, 2009, 05:31:01 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 06, 2009, 04:30:10 AM
Blacks in DC drop a lot of consonants.  As in:

Washinton Poas, fitty sen! Washinton Poas, fitty sen!

....sigh....
Title: Re: Do you pronounce the "t" in the word "best"?
Post by: derspiess on August 06, 2009, 11:50:52 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 06, 2009, 05:31:01 AM
....sigh....

All the other crap I can handle to a certain degree.  But the "cent" thing just gets under my skin.  Unless you're talking about a penny, it's plural, FFS :angry:
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