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minus-squareOokami38linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoSlow down your speech a bit (like listen to it in super slow mo) and you’ll realize there’s definitely a schwa sound between the N and the L sounds. Just how our mouths work moving through the shapes for them creates a schwa sound.
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months agoBy that logic, should not there be a schwa after the L too? That ('tǝnǝlǝ) would be absurd.
Slow down your speech a bit (like listen to it in super slow mo) and you’ll realize there’s definitely a schwa sound between the N and the L sounds. Just how our mouths work moving through the shapes for them creates a schwa sound.
By that logic, should not there be a schwa after the L too? That ('tǝnǝlǝ) would be absurd.