[Ads-l] I'm a < I'm going to

Flourish Klink flourish.klink at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 11 02:07:37 UTC 2016


Yep! At least, I think so. Hard to say. Someone would have to listen to me
say it. Maybe I'll record.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:02 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Flourish Klink <flourish.klink at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > the break between "I'm" and "ma,"
> >
>
> So, you don't speak it as "I ma," but as "I'm ma,", with a re-aticulated
> /m/?
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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