English speech weak forms

[mossy ferry]

So, i was never consciously aware of this, but i just watched a video which explains the weak forms and the schwa sound.

https://youtu.be/EaXYas58_kc

quite interesting, and it might explain why i always feel like people IRL understand my English way less than when I'm chatting with people in a voice chat.

were you aware of weak forms? do you use them?

[ember fiber]

puts video in watchlist aggressively

[kind wharf]

For a second I thought "weak form" meant WHNF

[ember fiber]

What's that?

[mossy ferry]

haskell stuff

[kind wharf]

haskell thing to do with lazy evaluation

[mossy ferry]

English speech weak forms

[kind wharf]

stands for Weak Head Normal Form

[vast sparrow]

Oh hey, I got recommended that too

[ember fiber]

Oh lol i c

[vast sparrow]

I was already aware of weak forms (which is weird, given I learnt english naturally) but I have always noticed that many words take two forms, and one of them is always 🌈 schwa 🌈
When I'm thinking about it consciously I never know which to use, though

[patent depot]

The schwa sound is the most common vowel in English

[mossy ferry]

yea, but its not taught well when learning as a second language

[patent depot]

oh no, not at all

It's not a phonetic language so it's wild to try and work out a word from its written form

Re weak forms, I think that the clear example you hear a lot is "What do you want to do?"

"whaddaya wanna DO"

[mossy ferry]

whaddayawannado

[patent depot]

hehe, indeed

but even in that the last "do" is very clearly voices where the first one is a little D sound

[vast sparrow]

wha'd'y'wanna'du

[patent depot]

This is when I wish I could use IPA

[ember fiber]

So I just watched the video

And uh... I guess I've been using that?

I'm just not exactly sure xD

I'll figure it out next time I talk in here haha

[shadow crypt]

im from yorkshire so i already talk funny

[patent depot]

Nowt weak in yorkshire!