Time for some more meta-blogging! I consider this a good time to do so because I believe myself to be drained of all inspiration. Perhaps you, or you, or I, deep down in the damp and verdant understory of my soul (yes, I did learn about the rain forest in third grade), have some ingenious idea to discuss on this blog that would have eliminated the necessity for such blatant tomfoolery as meta-blogging, but I am frankly too tired to come ask you (YES, YOU) to provide me with your idea or to descend into the lower depths of my tropical being.
To be even more honest than I already am in my self-exalting position as an upstanding citizen of the interwebs, I don't really have much to discuss about my blog. Instead, I shall talk about the phonetic structure of the prefix /mɛtə/. The thing is, Standard American English speakers rarely, if ever, pronounce prototypical /t/. SAE speakers will instead make use of the tap [ɾ] because of laziness--why put all the effort of keeping your tongue in place and exploding lots of air when you can minimize the time between the two vowels and just tap your tongue against your alveolar ridge? S-r-s-l-y! So /mɛtə/ is often realized as [mɛɾə].
By the way, if you're not familiar with phonetics and you think what I wrote sounds moderately technical and/or esoteric, it's not. I don't really know what I'm talking about, to be honest. It's mainly pretension, and pretension sounds a lot like a medical condition.
This has been a meta-blog post!!
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