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“This guy is falling”
languageshellyeah:

Comically Linguistic: It’s an easy mistake - sometimes it seems as though articulation is optional nowadays. Just the the other night a guy leaned over and said, “Would you like a drink?” I heard this as, “Do you like P!NK?” For a good five minutes I couldn’t understand why the poor sap was looking at me like I had just had a violent Tourette explosion.

“This guy is falling”

languageshellyeah:

Comically Linguistic: It’s an easy mistake - sometimes it seems as though articulation is optional nowadays. Just the the other night a guy leaned over and said, “Would you like a drink?” I heard this as, “Do you like P!NK?” For a good five minutes I couldn’t understand why the poor sap was looking at me like I had just had a violent Tourette explosion.

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