Title text: Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
If I was going to fully enunciate each word, like if I was recording something to be listened to and understood by other people, I think I would pronounce every sound in "going to", but I still wouldn't say the first "t" in "hot potato".