Uvular fricatives. Unrounded vowels. Glottal stops. As an English major, I studied linguistics and spent many hours learning my way around affricates, fricatives, and, of course, dipthongs, which sounded vaguely dirty and so summoned some dumb sounds from us. James Harbeck brings us the phonetic breakdowns of the many grunts and wheezes of exasperation we probably uttered when we were tested on the complex details of the linguistic field. Fine work. Have a listen.
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