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posted by jwray

3 months 2 weeks ago • 192 views

The difference between R and L is mainly the position of your tongue. If the tip of the tongue touches the roof of the mouth it's an L. It is impossible to pronounce the "R" sound with the tip of your tongue touching the roof of your mouth.

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proper pronunciation of a word beginning with "r" requires the lips to be softly rounded. Not so with "L"

written by smibbo

| 3 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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AN 'l' doesn't require the rongue to touch the top of your mouth.

written by MarineGunrock

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Some think
reft and light
can not be confused
what an ellol

(Original in German by Ernst Jandl)
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/pommeren/Buchstabendreher/lechts.html

written by maatc

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>> ^smibbo:
proper pronunciation of a word beginning with "r" requires the lips to be softly rounded. Not so with "L"

<Pirate> arrh! </Pirate>

Pirates excepted.

written by Thylan

| 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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Well, the teeth work fine as a substitute for touching the roof of the mouth, but still, any initial L requires blocking airflow over the middle-front of your tongue. Some dialects get lazy with final Ls and let them drag on without a crisp ending as if it was an extra kind of vowel. But Rs never involve blocking the airflow over the center of your tongue.

written by jwray

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I get frustrated because at both universities I've attended, every day is like Zero Wing. Even the professors who've been in the USA long enough to get tenure still have incomprehensible accents and strange syntax.

written by jwray

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