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Topic: the schwa is bullshit

boof started this discussion 4 years ago #103,171

you don't need that fuckin thing

jodie !foster2PAQ joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #1,164,718

why can't I type one out
oh well yeah agreed unnecessary

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,721

It makes English much easier to pronounce.

jodie !foster2PAQ replied with this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,723

@previous (C)
yeah but do we need to talk about it

Anonymous C replied with this 4 years ago, 59 seconds later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,724

@previous (jodie !foster2PAQ)
No, unless we are linguists.

jodie !foster2PAQ replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,726

@previous (C)

> No, unless we are linguists.

right?? my elementary school English classes got deep into that stuff and I retained it all for no fuckin reason. wasteful

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 15 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,812

@1,164,718 (jodie !foster2PAQ)
> why can't I type one out
Well you can. You probably don't have much reason to unless you're writing pronunciation keys or something.

jodie !foster2PAQ replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,830

@previous (D)
my keyboard doesn't have a shortcut and minichan didn't let me copy paste the Unicode schwa

jodie !foster2PAQ double-posted this 4 years ago, 18 seconds later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,831

maybe the other keyboard but can't be bothered

Anonymous D replied with this 4 years ago, 43 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,164,833

@1,164,830 (jodie !foster2PAQ)
Your OS should have a method for entering Unicode codes, be it a character map application or keyboard shortcuts.
U+259 should get you ə

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