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why do americans love smoothing out their speech so much? we

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why do americans love smoothing out their speech so much? we germans do it a bit as well but it's considered as sloppy speech and you would never see a news anchor do it
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what does smoothing out speech mean?
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>>72478716
You mean using contractions and the like?
We're lazy
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>>72478727

dropping letters, flap T etc
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It's just weird and seems like something edgelords would do. It's more common when people stress words.
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>>72478716
>do it a bit as well
>do it a bit
>a bit
I'll fucking tell you what right now you little cunt
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>>72479041
As in weird not to smoothen words
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>>72478716
You mean how comfortable becomes comftorble? It just happens when words get in the way of talking fast.
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>>72478716
Give me an example sentence to read to you and you tell me if I'm "smoothing it out" or not.
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>>72478716
>whatsthesourceonthis.png
dude, just reverse search on the pic and it's on the first result on google
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>>72479041
This. Not contracting and smooth words might make you sound a bit "off." I'm not sure how to explain it. A bit stilted and unnatural maybe?
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>>72482470
German speech reflects the German spirit: robotic inhumanity
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