butt-rice:

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard:

what are some phoneme sets that english speakers are really good at pronouncing but are barely present in English itself?

It just occurred to me that we only really use a starting “vl” in the word “vlog”, but you would never know because there’s zero difficulty there

vladmir

but also remember that V has the same mouth position as F, and we do fl quite often

A few years ago I made a conlang

(for a comic I started planning to make but never got to)

it tried to use pretty much every consonant sound that could be pretty easily spoken by an English speaker– and yeah, pretty much all of the ones that don’t occur in English are very similar in mouth position to ones that do