My Argentinean housemate just got a book on proper American accents and I’ve never felt more attacked
like why’s it gotta be so accurate
What’s fascinating to me is realizing that we simply ignore the glottal stop in every word that begins with a vowel when we speak quickly. Like unless you’re enunciating or speaking slowly you simply tell that glottal stop “fuck you” and hook the vowel to the previous consonant sound. Amazing. Glottal stops more like waste of time amirite
i’m biased obviously but i kind of think we shouldn’t pathologize fear of driving. like unlike relationship building and hygiene and things like that, driving is nowhere near a natural part of life and i don’t think it’s irrational to fear doing it. people also have different skill sets and abilities, some people will just simply never be able to feel safe operating a car like in the same way that some people will never feel safe performing surgery on someone. that’s an extreme example but you see what i’m saying, like, we have normalized driving as something that everybody does so it seems like a symptom to not want to do it. but driving is not actually “normal” in the sense of what is innately required for a healthy human life vs what is a learned expectation ykwim
