In the case of Miles, when he says bro with that oblivious grooviness, he’s suddenly reduced to a kid — a bro — himself. Maybe that’s the point, that slang keeps you young at heart. Heaven knows I’ve retained some embarrassing slang in my life, much that’s unprintable in a ...
As someone earlier said, this is so unless the word could be Spanish, as in baNAna, goRILLa, but this pattern is extended to vowelful, stressless languages such as Japanese, for instance Suzuki pronounced as Soo-ZOO-ki even though in Japanese the two u‘s are barely audible. The exception...