This is straight up. Better explanation than the whole wicky article. Because the usage of schwa for “uh” had me confused as fuck.
Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 10 months agoAlmost all of that conversation is using the “uh” as a ‘replacement’ for all the vowels.
Whuht’s Uhp, Dugh.
That “uh” sound is called “shwa”
ArtificialLink@lemy.lol 10 months ago
thegreatgarbo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
*schwa for “uh” * That’s all I needed to turn an incomprehensible explanation to “oh! Got it!”
Retrograde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But why is it called schwa??
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Phonetic names. If you were to call it “uh” it would be too ambiguous. Probably.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
en.wikipedia.org/…/International_Phonetic_Alphabe…