Comments by "Шум Шумов" (@YaShoom) on "Why E̱NGLISH shoul̆d start ūsing accėnt màrks" video.

  1. 12:17 in what sense is there no stress on "schwa" in English? Are you referring to formal definitions in English phonetics (linguistics), or do you believe it doesn't exist in reality, physically? The issue is that English does have a real, physical "schwa" under stress, for example in the word "fun," but the conventions of English phonetics describe it as a completely different phoneme, represented by the "cap" symbol (similar to a lambda), which doesn't actually sound like the symbol used in IPA. English linguists, who set the norms for teaching and scientific description of the language, simply cannot officially recognize and correct this due to the centuries-old history of such descriptions (that the schwa phoneme exists under stress), and they cannot admit that other vowels, which are unstressed, simply match the stressed schwa in their quality (that is, the so-called E is pronounced not as a special allophone of schwa, which exists only in unstressed positions, but the so-called E qualitatively matches the stressed schwa phoneme when E is in an unstressed position). This is like a giraffe being unable to rid itself of the curse of its redundant recurrent laryngeal nerve because evolution poorly eliminates past erroneous decisions, which now heavily influence everything. This is also observed in the laws of countries where many other laws are tied to old definitions, and thus fixing everything is extremely difficult. Therefore, the mistake about the absence of stressed schwa will continue to spread endlessly, over and over again. Hahaha. P.S. I might have made a formal error in the description of terms, but the essence is correct.
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