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Yeah this is very distinctly "guoi", probably just a stylistic choice

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yeah okay thank you for telling me im not tripping 😭

[fringe tendon]

it's not uncommon to pronounce <k> more lightly in colloquial speech but yeah this is more than usual

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is that the universal linguistic thing or a reg k

[fringe tendon]

the universal linguistic thing?

I just meant a K sound

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phonetic

universal phonetic alphabet

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you put it between two arrow heads instead of brackets or commas lol

so i assumed it was some unique

[fringe tendon]

ah the IPA

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yeah idk ipa which was why i asked

[fringe tendon]

well yeah writing the letters like that is the linguistic standard but I just do it for convenience