Why is "Though tough, through thorough thought, one thinks." a tongue twister?

by genidoion 9/15/2024, 1:31 AMwith 5 comments

by genidoion 9/15/2024, 1:39 AM

Some backstory: By chance whilst visiting Ho Chi Minh city, I tried to create a tongue twister for a Vietnamese girl who spoke perfect English. This one did it.

I hadn’t yet asked ChatGPT or any other LLM until now to break down why a very reproducible task (English essentially must be your native language to pronounce this correctly) is near-impossible to do in rapid succession for ESL speakers.

I used o1-preview. Afaik, this is a new tongue twister.

by tuatoruon 9/15/2024, 3:35 AM

The "ough" sounds are all different.

by talldayoon 9/15/2024, 1:37 AM

It's not, it's just hard to read.