• ornery_chemist@mander.xyzEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Don’t a lot of these use the “strut” vowel (/ʌ/) and not schwa (/ə/) per se?

    My transcription would be

    /wʌts ʌp? wʌz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌntʃ. nʌʔʌ dʌgz stʌk kəz əv ə tʌnəl əbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn əv ʌnjənz. ʊχ./

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      You would probably just sound like a non-native speaker. I assume it would be similar to weak forms and how weak forms are usually absent from non-native english speech.

      • NoRodent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        As a non-native speaker, I was kinda confused at first by this comic because in my head the vowels definitely didn’t sound all the same. But I personally consider pronunciation of vowels in English to be one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, so no wonder.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Non-native to where? These aren’t all schwa in all English-speaking nations. They’re not even all schwa in all US dialects.

        Language is crazy.