xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech
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Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
Sandhi is an amazing area of study. It's doubly fun in tonal languages: all the confusion of atonal languages with an added layer of shitfuckery.