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xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)
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Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.

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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah that blew my mind about Spanish. I was like, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL THESE VOWELS ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME SOUND??? YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO THAT!??"

Then I started trying to learn to conjugate verbs and I was like ohhhhh, ok, so fuck me.