Americans dipthongize repeated vowels in foreign words even they aren’t 🤔
Like beer is beeyur but kheer (Hindi for milk puddings) is not kheeyur, it’s just a long ee
To get a long vowel in English you typically use two different vowels. To get the meen sound you write mean 🤔
Conversation
Replying to
wait how do _you_ get from a long E to an R without passing through schwa? i guess you could move the R forwards
2
Replying to
i definitely _can_ get from E to R, but it's a different R; my normal R has a schwa sort of in it implici
2
2

