on my show last week we analyzed the scene from the movie artificial intelligence where creation meets creator which presents a good example to contrast the difference between the t and th phonetic sounds in english.
the creator tries to convince his creation
professor hobby, the robotics engineer who created david the robot child is amazed by how human david seems
You found a fairy tale, and inspired by love, fuelled by desire you set out on a journey to make her real and what’s most remarkable no one taught you how
david looks like a boy but he’s really a robot
david’s responds
i thought I was one of a kind
when a speaker doesn’t pronounce the th in thought it sounds the same as taught. this confuses the speaker’s idea, but not pronouncing the th in third can be considerably more embarrassing
turd is a piece of poop.
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