Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness—It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick
by Julie Sedivy
Feb 18, 2015
2 minute
Many of us have been taught that pronouncing vowels indistinctly and dropping consonants are symptoms of slovenly speech, if not outright disregard for the English language. The Irish playwright St. John Ervine viewed such habits as evidence that some speakers are “weaklings too languid and emasculated to speak their noble language with any vigor.” If
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