Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.

• topherclay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I meant to say upper teeth to bottom lip, not the other way around.

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Whoops, that’s what I meant. Me too.

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• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on ‘four’

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