Re: [tied] schwa ( it was Re: The Magic Mountain)

Glen Gordon wrote:

> Alex:
>> This has nothing to do with your original post. It is just a simple
>> question of how should have been rendered in proto-slavic a sound as
>> schwa in the moment they heard it somewhere. Will it be rendered as
>> "a", as "o" or as "o~"?
>
> Alex?? You just aren't taking your medication, are you? I admit to
> entering into this midway into the thread but... a "schwa" is known
> by all who have libraries to mean a mid-central vowel. There is only
> one pronunciation for the schwa. If someone is calling it a "schwa"
> then this is what it is pronounced like -- a mid-central vowel. Your
> question sounds severely misinformed. What do you think a schwa
> is, Alex? How can one "render" a schwa as anything other than
> a schwa?? If it's rendered as something else, it's not a schwa!!
>
>
> = gLeN

Alex has took his medicine and takes a deep breath:

Dear Glen,

I don't know how to make it clear. I guess I have to rebuild the
question.
Is there in proto-slavic traces of "schwa" within the words? Did the
proto-slavic has had the mid-central vowel "schwa"?

Alex