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user-inactivated  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 6, 2018

    and frequently has what are technically vowel-less syllables (think about how we'd pronounce the last syllable of "tunnel" in English

For those curious, that "tunnel" can have no vowel in the last syllable, or it can have a vowel that has no representation in the language, and yet, is abundantly common: the schwa.