There are features that people find weird that I find to be very common from listening to actual native English-speakers, including in contexts like on the radio, such as flap elision and associated vowel smoothing, coda pre-fortis nasal elision, and non-coronal realizations of /r/ and especially /l/.Darren wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 4:03 am Travis' transcriptions always look crazy, but I think he's right that they're just more accurate than most peoples' transcriptions. I've noticed that when imitating American accents, I naturally go for non-coronal /r/ and /l/ without realising it for instance.
Of course, I am naturally biased by the fact that most of the people I hear are resident to southeastern Wisconsin, with the exception of some repeated radio from Chicago, commercials common to Milwaukee and Chicago, national commercials, and centralized radio personalities on things such as iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel Radio), which I sometimes do listen to out of desperation if all the other terrestial radio stations I listen to aren't playing things I like.