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Re: English is hard

Post by Tero » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:59 pm

Schneibster wrote:
Tero wrote:were has some other vowel when you pronounce it
It's called a schwa: wər. Even more confusing, you'll hear "we're" corrupted into the same sound. "Wər gunnə gōdəthə stōr. Yū wanə gō?"
Very nice characters. We should replace some useless keys on the keyboard with those, like § ½.
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Re: English is hard

Post by Schneibster » Sat Nov 12, 2011 3:06 pm

Too late now, at least in English. ASCII will never die.
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