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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the link to the wikipedia page with the audio clip really helped, made no sense without that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is the audio clip?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Never have I needed the explanation more than with this one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still have no clue.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Almost all of that conversation is using the "uh" as a 'replacement' for all the vowels.

Whuht's Uhp, Duhg.

That "uh" sound is called "schwa"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why is it called schwa??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Phonetic names. If you were to call it "uh" it would be too ambiguous. Probably.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is straight up. Better explanation than the whole wicky article. Because the usage of schwa for "uh" had me confused as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

schwa for “uh”

That's all I needed to turn an incomprehensible explanation to "oh! Got it!"