The OH and I just realized...

27 Jun 2009 07:57 pm
firecat: x-men wolverine face behind claws (wolverine1)
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...that the word "hallelujah" and the word "schadenfreude" rhyme and scan the same.

Possibilities are left up to the imagination of the reader.
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Date: 28 Jun 2009 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pgdudda.livejournal.com
No, they don't. At least, not in German. The two schwa vowels are distinct in German - the first gets [ʌ], and the second gets [ə], and they are allophones of different phonemes.

(Who, me, pedantic?)
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