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minus-squarerandomaccount43543@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agohttps://explainxkcd.com/2907
minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoNever have I needed the explanation more than with this one.
minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agothe link to the wikipedia page with the audio clip really helped, made no sense without that.
minus-squarecaptainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThank you!
minus-squarePrandom_returns@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoAlmost 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”
minus-squareArtificialLink@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThis is straight up. Better explanation than the whole wicky article. Because the usage of schwa for “uh” had me confused as fuck.
minus-squarethegreatgarbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoschwa for “uh” That’s all I needed to turn an incomprehensible explanation to “oh! Got it!”
minus-squareRetrograde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoBut why is it called schwa??
minus-squarePrandom_returns@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoPhonetic names. If you were to call it “uh” it would be too ambiguous. Probably. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
https://explainxkcd.com/2907
Never have I needed the explanation more than with this one.
the link to the wikipedia page with the audio clip really helped, made no sense without that.
Thank you!
I still have no clue.
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”
This is straight up. Better explanation than the whole wicky article. Because the usage of schwa for “uh” had me confused as fuck.
schwa for “uh”
That’s all I needed to turn an incomprehensible explanation to “oh! Got it!”
But why is it called schwa??
Phonetic names. If you were to call it “uh” it would be too ambiguous. Probably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet