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Inari: "Wait..."

Fran: "Are we in Finnish?"

Jonathan: "No, we're in English with Finnish pronunciation."

Tommi: "That's the bestest!"

Fran: [həvjəgɔʔˈbɪː]

Cashier: "What's [bɪː]?"

"So Korean dramas are all the rage in lots of countries in Asia. And in China, when they imitate this recurring phrase from the Korean dramas—[Korean...], ‘I love you’—because that's what they do in Korean dramas, they love each other—they repeat it with an affricate."

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"The Spanish speakers are all like ‘it's close enough—we'll just make a little phonological conversion chart: «insert a bunch of /ʒ/ and /ão/»’"

[Niko says something syntactically odd in English]

[Everyone pauses and frowns, including Niko]

Niko: "Eh, L9 interference."

"If they wanted it to be pronounced [latkəz], they should've spelled it ‘lutkers’."

Chuck: "There's Low German forms, Middle High German forms, Upper High German forms, and even Anglo-Frisian forms. This is weird!"

Derek: "Maybe a non-native speaker wrote it."

Chuck: "Or they had some pretty heavy stuff back then."

Jurgen: "So I don't mess it up, how do you pronounce your name?"

Dan: "Dan."

"But in America, there are lots of—how do you call them?—homosexuals."

"Let me tell you, Chuck-for-the-buck is the best."

"Kazakh is sweet piece of cake comparing to Russian.. Russian is even more harder than English..."