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  • The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

    English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

    English doesn’t have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn’t stand out to anyone because it doesn’t otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I’ve read that in Japanese the “F” in “Mount Fuji” is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.









  • Wtf even is this community?

    It’s like one of those scam posts where bots ask for a link and then say thanks so that the victims click a link where they can put their credit card info into? But it’s an entire community of this premise instead of just a random spammy post here and there that you see before a moderator bans the poster? Weird.








  • Silicon is not a rock so saying that silica is not rare is irrelevant to the “rare rock” line.

    Silica is indeed refined but the rocks that they refine to get the pure silica are indeed rare rocks. They only really refine the pure silicate that already start with super low impurities. relatively speaking. And the low trace elements impurities is what makes them rare.