word endings in liaison

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[grizzled verge]

;liaisons

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word endings in liaison

[grizzled verge]

I can't see allez-y and mangez-en there but they're mandatory too

[granite monolith]

How about "faites attention"? Is it "fai-ta-tention" or "faite-za-tention" ?

[hushed cliff]

that one is optional, it's either or

the latter being a bit more formal

[grizzled verge]

Huh?

[granite monolith]

Is it actually correct to pronounce "faites attention" as "fai-ta-tention"? Because it sounds like it used liaison but also omitted the ending

[grizzled verge]

It didn't use liaison

Just syllables do get remade across words like that all the time bc it's a Romance language

[hushed cliff]

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/either-or

Ça correspond à "l'un ou l'autre", on va dire

[grizzled verge]

Oui mais ça se dit tout seul ?

[hushed cliff]

Oui

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/either-or#:~:text=Meaning of either-or in English&text=used to refer to a,we can't do both.

C'est pas de l'argot non plus