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Anonymous ID:x4NQvBho Sat 23 Sep 2017 11:40:03 No.2258553 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2258949 >>2259142 >>2260330

>surprisingly large amounts of Americans literally can't pronounce "escape". They say "ex-scape"

Why??????

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Anonymous ID:N2W1W1be Sat 23 Sep 2017 12:48:51 No.2258949 Report

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>>2258553
The average american literacy level is 5th grade. That is 10-11 years old.

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Anonymous ID:qDG56WzG Sat 23 Sep 2017 12:50:26 No.2258956 Report

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>surprisingly large amounts of non-Americans literally can't stop blowing it out their asses

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Anonymous ID:0J/t6pps Sat 23 Sep 2017 12:52:17 No.2258967 Report

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you will not survive in the US if poor English upsets you...

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Anonymous ID:LtYq3qnu Sat 23 Sep 2017 12:58:00 No.2259142 Report

Quoted By: >>2259966

>>2258553
when learning to read in America, you only have a few seconds to pronounce the word before you are yelled at for not knowing it. This causes so much panic, that kids start memorizing the shapes of the entire word and getting a lot of them confused. "Escape" and "Exit" are close enough, and kids think about fire exits and the red signs in grocery stores, and blurt out the first word they remember.

for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVfbXE9ExEE

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Anonymous ID:x4NQvBho Sat 23 Sep 2017 14:49:41 No.2259966 Report

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>>2259142
Can anyone verify this?

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Anonymous ID:VriaFBZj Sat 23 Sep 2017 15:18:16 No.2260255 Report

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>>2258949
Fuck off proxy

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Anonymous ID:N+YS97kq Sat 23 Sep 2017 15:27:20 No.2260330 Report

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>>2259966
It's not true. The guy just had a shitty childhood.

>>2258553
The way Americans pronounce escape is caused by metathesis. Not every American does it, but it does exist in some accents. Both some British and American accents also metathesize "ask" and British English universally metathesizes words that end in "re"

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