myrmidex@belgae.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoWithout vowels there'd be no singingmessage-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down18
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareWithout vowels there'd be no singingmyrmidex@belgae.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squarebdot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·7 days agobut humming counts as singing, doesn’t it? which means that you COULD sing without vowels
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoNo, I would not consider humming singing
minus-squarebdot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agowell - Wikipedia seems to disagree, and says “common definitions include “the utterance of words or sounds in tuneful succession”” and that was just the first place i looked.
minus-squaremozingo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agoYea, some voiced consonants like L, M, N, R and maybe Y would work fine for singing, I think. Like if we only had words like “Hm”, or “Lt” (pronounced similar to “ult”), you could sing it fine.
minus-squarerockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 days agoI mean those are already halfway to vowels. In Japanese, “N” can be its own syllable.
minus-squaremyrmidex@belgae.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·7 days agoand birds also don’t have official vowels. I’m starting to see the flaws in my thought :)
minus-squarefratermus@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agowithout kegels there’d be no squeezing
but humming counts as singing, doesn’t it? which means that you COULD sing without vowels
No, I would not consider humming singing
well - Wikipedia seems to disagree, and says “common definitions include “the utterance of words or sounds in tuneful succession””
and that was just the first place i looked.
Yea, some voiced consonants like L, M, N, R and maybe Y would work fine for singing, I think. Like if we only had words like “Hm”, or “Lt” (pronounced similar to “ult”), you could sing it fine.
I mean those are already halfway to vowels. In Japanese, “N” can be its own syllable.
and birds also don’t have official vowels. I’m starting to see the flaws in my thought :)
Without vogels there’d be no tweeting.
without kegels there’d be no squeezing