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systemglitch ,

I don’t get it.

paris ,

www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2907:_Schwa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4zyRqILYM

LemmyFeed ,

I’m even more confused now…

Suburbanl3g3nd ,

All the vowels make an ‘uh’ sound when you read the sentence out loud

_dev_null ,
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They’re all using only the ‘uh’ sound for every non-silent vowel in each word.

That ‘uh’ sound is apparently called the schwa in linguistics.

(edit: clarified after i had already hit the post button)

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