pretty fucked up that four of the five English vowels are diphthongs
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Idk English is so far down the list in terms of vowel sound complexity it may almost just as well be Arabic.
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Idk man I have been with English vowels
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it's absolutely wild how:
- purred
- heard
- bird
all involve exactly the same vowel sound
English spelling is nonsense
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Oh sure, I was just playin'.
The funniest part of English, to me, remains how your most used vowel sound isn't even in your alphabet
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Well, it's a short ø. The long one sounds different.
Our alphabet is phonetically superior to English, but it's no Hungarian or Polish.
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It's also not technically quite a schwa, which we also have, albeit much less used than in English, but you'd need a good ear to notice the difference.