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CowperKettle

04:50

> "Despite common belief, loss of neurons due to cell death is quite limited during normal aging and unlikely to account for age-related functional impairments," wrote the scientists, including lead author Ronen Eavri and corresponding author Elly Nedivi, a professor of biology and brain and cognitive sciences.

How do I pronounce Eavri?

Anonymous

@ColleenV [detailsplease]? :-)

Anonymous

@CowperKettle I have no idea.

CowperKettle

09:03

Word of the day: suicide door

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ColleenV

10:11

Daily idiom: "play (one's) cards right" She figured if she played her cards right, she could win the local election which would be a stepping-stone to a higher office.

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CowperKettle

13:39

Fun fact. In a parallel universe, all parallel lines cross each other, that's why they don't call our universe "a parallel universe".

userr2684291

14:34

@snailboat ell.stackexchange.com/questions/177126 When pronouncing in that, I'd say, starting with /ɪn/, in lazy(?) conversational English, /æt/ might follow (or /ət/, by the same token) without proper realization of /ð/ because I think you can approximate a /ð/ with a /d/, which is close to the place of articulation of /n/. Further, omitting the /t/ doesn't seem remarkable either, but somehow I think it gets reduced to some kind of... glottal stop, maybe? Enough guessing from me.

CowperKettle

14:51

> Bilingual children who speak native language at home have higher intelligence

medicalxpress.com/news/…

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CowperKettle

16:18

> Sometimes a referee or an umpire changes the course of a game with a bum call, and when that happens we're appalled.

Does bum call here mean "bad decision"?

smh.com.au/sport/…

ColleenV

16:49

@CowperKettle Yes - you can also have a "bum leg" for example. It's very colloquial/informal

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bum - poor quality/bad/wrong

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Anonymous

22:30

@userr2684291 It depends on the phonetic context. I would often reduce in to a syllabic n.

Anonymous

For the coda /t/ in that, in many accents (including mine), it's perfectly normal to either reinforce the [t] with [ʔ], or to replace it entirely with [ʔ]. Note that the /t/ sound isn't "dropped" or "omitted". Rather, these are just allophones of /t/.

Anonymous

Both gestures can overlap, and depending on how they overlap, your [t] might be completely inaudible. That is, you might move your tongue as if to make a [t] sound, but have that gesture end up being completely inaudible because the airflow has already stopped at the glottis.

Anonymous

And since it's frequently inaudible, it's also fairly natural to stop making the tongue movement at all.

Anonymous

But again, that depends on the phonetic context. It also depends on the accent. That question is hard to answer if we don't know anything else about the sentence or the accent they're targeting.