I know there is because I don't have one and this has caused social problems for mehttps://twitter.com/nancywyuen/status/1371970132302458880 …
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I've never seriously tried to do it but I guess if I wanted to try to "sound more Asian" without doing a full-on recent-immigrant accent I'd put more brief pauses/stops after consonantal endings of words etc.
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Not picking up on the natural rhythm of how words slur together in the speech of a fluent native speaker is a frequent "tell", it's one of the last things that comes when learning a language
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The equivalent of, I dunno, "writing in cursive" instead of writing in print Or like playing the guitar, a virtuoso guitarist knowing exactly when they *need* to lift their fingers off the strings and never doing it unnecessarily
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My Korean-American friends in high school and college were mostly 2nd gen and some (or their siblings) had that articulated pronunciation you're referring to. It's a bit like certain people Ive met who learned English in a foreign boarding school. Like, more perfect.
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Yeah I had it when I was a kid and worked really hard to get rid of it
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Sure, though that term refers to *blatantly* noticeable things that are actually "errors"
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