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xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)

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Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.

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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Most English accents make a strong distinction between most of the voewls in that sentence. If you relentlessly turn everything to schwa, you get a cross between the aforementioned Forest Gump and "Ermagerd, shers".

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, what words does your accent pronounce without a schwa? Every single vowel sound in that is a schwa sound in those sentences sounds perfectly natural to me with a schwa sound.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

/wɒts ʌp? wʌz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌntʃ. nʌʔʌ dʌgz stʌk kɒz ɒv ə tʌnəl ɒbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn ɒv ʌnjənz. əχ./

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For me it's more like
/wɒts ʌp? wɒz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌnʧ. nɜːʔɜː dʌgz stʌk kʌz ɒv ə tʌnəl əbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn ɒv ʌnjənz. əχ./

(Gimsonian, anyway, I like the newer, more logical style that would have nurse be /nəːs/)

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