Thread: Mouth shape
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Old 2005-01-04, 18:24   Link #16
killmoms
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Testing321
Mouth shape does indeed have an effect on it, when making English rs and ls, as you will see if you read my first post. I do not make these sounds by touching the tongue to the top of my mouth. Try again.
Except he wasn't talking about English R's and L's. He was pointing out how the Japanese R/L meta-sound (as near as we can understand it) is pronounced. Your OP and his reply are related only in that they're talking about linguistic phenomena.
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