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   Wolfe Silver (wolfe@terrible.city)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 15:32:17 JST Wolfe Silver

   ah yes /ɹ̃ʷ/, definitely a good and normal sound for the letter R to represent,

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     Wolfe Silver (wolfe@terrible.city)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 15:32:15 JST Wolfe Silver

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     ok what do you call that letter? R

     oh we call it /ɑː/

     wait but doesn't that get confusing with that one? A

     oh no no that's obviously /ej/

     wait /ej/? what's that one then? E

     i mean that's obviously /iː/

     uhhhh ok so what do you call that one? I

     duh? it's /ɑj/

     which is different from /ɑː/

     yes

     which is a consonant

     correct

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     Wolfe Silver (wolfe@terrible.city)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 15:32:16 JST Wolfe Silver

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     the letter R sometimes represents a vowel sound in every major english dialect and that should come as no surprise given that half the anglosphere calls that letter /ɑː/

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.