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This example doesn't work for me. I barely pronounce the "t" even when i just say the word "hot" by itself, so when i say "hot potato" i don't pronounce the t any differently.
Now I'm just sitting here picturing you saying stuff like "Careful don't touch that! That pan is ho!"
After repeating it out loud for a bit, it comes out more like "hah" than "ho"
Yup exactly. It's something like "hahd" but the end is extremely quiet, and the sound is like halfway between a t and d. Kind of like how French people say a final t at the end of a word like beret