I’m not watching Heated Rivalry (yet?) but if anything is going to get me interested in it it’s… (opens in new tab)

burntheedges: On Connor Storrie’s excellent Russian in HR (from a linguist) Ok it’s time to put my Russian and linguistics (and Slavic linguistics) degrees to work and tell you why Connor Storrie’s Russian and accent work in this show is so freaking good. (Links added for those who want more info about stuff.) Hey other linguists — I’m playing fast and loose with notation here, ok, we’re not doing phonemes and IPA. We’re going to go over overall mouth shape, palatalization, lack of aspiration...