New listening practice video: "MABAHO PERO MASARAP | Eating Duri

So, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole "ba't" thing. Toward the end of the video, while he's eating the durian, he says, "Ba't lasa pong letson?" Is he asking, "Does it taste like letson?"
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@Diegocorry
If you click/tap the word in the transcript, it should pull up the dictionary search, which will show that "ba't" is an alternate spelling of "bakit" (highlighted in yellow in those search results).So... "Ba't lasa pong letson?" = "Bakit lasa pong letson?"= Why does this taste like letson? ; )

@TLDCAdmin That was my first thought but then there is this from @Tagamanila in a previous discussion:
["BTW, the use of "ba't" as "bakit" is not that often done and almost never in the written form. When we speak fast enough, there could be a tendency for us to slide through the word "bakit" that it ends up sounding like "bat". I don't think we intentionally substitute "ba't" for "bakit" though."]. In the transcription of the video, they did actually spell it "ba't" -- hence my confusion. All that being said, I can easily accept that the intention was "bakit" as that makes sense in the context. Thanks.

@Diegocorry When I am listening, I do seem to hear “ba’t” a lot, which is a uniquely Filipino way of pronouncing words...I think it’s because the “k” sound is often pronounced slightly different than the way we do in the US...they just tend to be quieter and pronounced slightly further back in the throat. For example, in the US we would never ever pronounce “bucket” as “ba’t”, even if we were speaking very quickly. ; ) Here’s another thread I started about a year ago, also about this quiet K’s:
www.tagaloglessons.c om/message_board/vie w_message.php?parent _message_id=719These Listening Practice videos use more informal language than most written text, and then it’s up to the transcriber on how best to transcribe that casual language, so I think there’s a lot of wiggle room in there for what is written. I think the main point to keep in mind is that if you hear “bat”, it might mean bakit/why if it makes sense in context...