Image transcription: Cereal guy meme template. In the first frame he says: “Hmm, wonder whether trills can be aspirated”. In the second frame, as indicated with IPA, he articulates a heavily lengthened preaspirated voiceless bilabial trill, thence spitting the cereal.
And no, you can generally only aspirate obstruents, hence the preaspiration.
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This popped up in my feed right after a star trek meme and I was very confused.
Jadzia can certainly be aspirated. You know, because she got put in a torpedo after what Dukat did
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There should be a whole section on making funny sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Nice try, but fricatives are obstruents, not sonorants
Duh, you’re right. I’ll remove the comment above to avoid misinforming anyone.
Thanks for pointing this out. (Note to self: limoncello and phonetics don’t go well together.)
