The letter R is one too and we just don't acknowledge it
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what
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Replying to @ExLegeLibertas @arthur_affect and
like I'm very prepared to believe you but, what.
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Say the word "Grrrr" out loud and keep on saying it Notice that you're making quite a loud noise using your vocal chords
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Hmm. But aren't we really making a "u" sound there, and faking it away on the specific onomatopoeia of "grr"? Aren't we really saying "Guuuuuuur" and just spelling it otherwise? I do see your point of it as a half-vowel, maybe, but...
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Replying to @ExLegeLibertas @arthur_affect
The "R" sound is meant to imply a "ruh", rather than just the "errgh" sort of noise, from my experience.
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North American English is notable because it's far more comfortable with "r-colored vowels" as a concept than other English dialects ("Hard Rs" take time to learn to pronounce, lots of kids have trouble with it)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ExLegeLibertas
We had a whole conversation about how in the UK they use the written words "Er" and "erm" to represent what we would spell "uh" and "um" To them it's the same thing while to us it's pretty clearly different
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(Specifically, "rrrr" is pronounced by curling the tongue while when saying "uhhh" the tongue lies flat)
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