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0But whether it was the carnage of the innocent by Hamas suicide-homicides or whether it was the murder of innocent Muslims who worshipped at the Ibrahimi Mosque at the Cave of Patriarchs or the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir---all those acts of violence were done with a conviction on the part of the perpetrators 01b00that that's02b00 what God wanted, 01b00that that02b00 process was against God's interests.02br02br00 Usage of two 01b00that02b00, please check0-

Kooyeen · Accepted Answer

0Yes, two thats are ok, used that way. Note that they are pronounced differently, anyway.... 050010id1

BarbaraPA · Answer

0How are they pronunced differently?02br
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00You might glide over that final t int the first that, but only do to rapidly. You would probably give more emphasis to the second that. But what do you mean?0-

Kooyeen · Answer

0 I don't know, I think the first "that" rhymes with "but", and the second with "bat". The first is a kind of relative pronoun... 01b01i00The bat 01u00that02u00 hit you just like 01u00that02u00.02i02b00 Don't those two sound different? 0-

BarbaraPA · Answer

0Not for me.0-

Kooyeen · Answer

0Well, I usually hear it that way, and Ann Cook in American Accent training told me to do so, so I think I'll go on pronouncing them that way. I could upload the short audio examples she uses to teach the difference between those two kinds of "that", but I don't feel like it now. 05000 If you are interested or curious I might post them in the pronunciation section one day...010id4

BarbaraPA · Answer

0K, I love you dearly, but watching video clips of people pronouncing "that that" as "thut that" would simply prove that I have no life, and I need no further evidence of that.0-

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