Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@akjcv correspondingly, it was a lot easier to tell which things were in the city and which weren't because of this

@akjcv that was the thing where i used to live; the city did sidewalks but the county didn't, so in places where one side of the road was in city limits and the other side wasn't only the city side would get a sidewalk, and when it left the city the sidewalk would end

@akjcv it's not a city limits thing?

@coriander are you allergic to incense

@coriander i use pokémon for this

@alyssa @aescling obviously you can release into a pause though (i’m not arguing against “cat tail”) so this is a bit murky and entwined with the question of “what constitutes a phonological word”

@alyssa @aescling yeah i think we’re definitely getting into “what physically constitutes a consonant” here (is it the stop, the release, both separately, or both together) which is not entirely settled territory

my feeling is that a stop cannot release into another stop at the same position because you’re already stopped, you have to release into something else before you can stop there again. but i fully believe that there are many linguists who would disagree on this take

@alyssa @aescling i think that’s my take, that it’s actually /kætə̥te/, but that might be needlessly pedantic

@aescling @coriander i want to read horny fanfic about this!!