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[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it's generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That would interrupt airflow would it not?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You don't purse the lips together, they're lightly touching allowing air to go through

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Could be regional yeah. Interesting!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.

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