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		yorwba on Oct 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Awful German Language (1880) Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Khmer the language does seem to have some fun sounds. But English has a consonant between 'b' and 'p' ('pʰ' in IPA) as well. Just consider the difference between 'ban', 'span' and 'pan'. The 'p' in 'span' is not as forceful as the 'p' in 'pan', and they're actually different consonants.

jfk13 on Oct 6, 2018 [–]

> The 'p' in 'span' is not as forceful as the 'p' in 'pan', and they're actually different consonants.

Yes, they're phonetically different, but in English the difference is not phonemic; they're allophones of the same consonant.

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