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xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I bet these sentences sound super weird if you try to pronounce them without using any schwas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Great.. now it reads like Apu from Simpsons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean Apu?

Abu was the monkey in Aladdin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yes.

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