ryan: i just read a long feature about a linguistic quirk and halfway through realized a coworker does it and i want so badly to talk to them about it but i get the sense that telling someone “hey, you speak weird, here’s why” is not appropriate workplace behavior

i just read a long feature about a linguistic quirk and halfway through realized a coworker does it and i want so badly to talk to them about it but i get the sense that telling someone “hey, you speak weird, here’s why” is not appropriate workplace behavior

I would genuinely enjoy it if people would share their observations on how I talk, but I may be weird that way.

What is the quirk?

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wha...

The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letterwww.atlasobscura.com I made a bunch of linguists listen to this social media phenomenon and tell me what’s going on.

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