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by hinkley 2547 days ago
> guttural/uvular

That’s the stuff. Thanks for the vocab lesson. And look at that map. Most of northern and Central Europe is a guttural r.

You trilled R motherfuckers in French class ignored your poor teachers’ pained expressions for years, while the rest of us wanted to go up, pat them, and say it’s okay, we share your pain.

Apparently I have some unresolved hostilities toward some people who got A’s but had disastrous pronunciation.