Re: Schwas in America

Dan Sulani wrote:
>     Does any of this make any sense? Can I be producing a sentence,
> in English, with no vowels? Do any other native English speakers do
> anything similar with the phrase "What are you going to do?" ?
Not to nearly that extent.  My fast version is something like
[w@tS(I)g@n(I)du], 3-5 syllables, those vowels in parentheses are
ultra-brief.  I don't *think* they can be dropped, but they're so quick
that I don't know if they can count as syllables, or more just
transitions.