Ah, that makes sense. *lol* Hey, when people turn "cot" and "caught" into homophones, isn't that a stereotypical feature of Canadian speech, though the entire West seems to do it, too? I seem to remember learning about it in one of my many language classes. Yeah, a lisp is a speech impediment, but it's the only shape where you get a "th" sound in German, so it makes for a good comparison in the EFL classroom. Everyone knows what a lisp sounds like, but many younger students don't encounter much English up to the point when they learn it at school. Very unlike in countries where the language exists as a Lingua Franca, of course.
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Hey, when people turn "cot" and "caught" into homophones, isn't that a stereotypical feature of Canadian speech, though the entire West seems to do it, too? I seem to remember learning about it in one of my many language classes.
Yeah, a lisp is a speech impediment, but it's the only shape where you get a "th" sound in German, so it makes for a good comparison in the EFL classroom. Everyone knows what a lisp sounds like, but many younger students don't encounter much English up to the point when they learn it at school. Very unlike in countries where the language exists as a Lingua Franca, of course.