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  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,801
    edited March 2013

    Crap... Double post.

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  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,801
    edited March 2013

    Ledhead said:
    Dr Stupid said:

    My last house was called "Pwll Canol". It was always great fun listening to saesneg visitors' attempts at pronouncing it. Although unfortunately it often sounded a lot more like "Poo Canal" :lol:

    I really like astronomy, the sparkling lights and all, but the last thing I want to talk about is Uranus.And this, children, is why I call it "Yer-an-us".

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  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    RCDeschene said:
    Ledhead said:
    Dr Stupid said:

    My last house was called "Pwll Canol". It was always great fun listening to saesneg visitors' attempts at pronouncing it. Although unfortunately it often sounded a lot more like "Poo Canal" :lol:

    I really like astronomy, the sparkling lights and all, but the last thing I want to talk about is Uranus.

    And this, children, is why I call it "Yer-an-us".

    And this, children, is why I call it "that blue one that's way the heck out there."

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    And now I have the lyrics to Blue Moon running through my head. :bug:
    Think about it....

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,198
    edited December 1969

    bompty bomp bompitty bomp lingalong dang...


    B-L-U-E-H-U-E M-O-O-N

  • StorypilotStorypilot Posts: 1,675
    edited March 2013

    One of my elementary school teachers taught me that the vowels were AEIOU and sometimes Y and sometimes W.

    I've recently learned it's actually kind of true, that W actually counts as a semi-vowel when representing a diphthong, such as in the -ow in cow (...and as a true vowel IN WELSH!) but she never explained these subtleties, and left my seven year old self to press along, quite puzzled for many years.

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  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    Storypilot said:
    One of my elementary school teachers taught me that the vowels were AEIOU and sometimes Y and sometimes W.

    I've recently learned it's actually kind of true, that W actually counts as a semi-vowel when representing a diphthong, such as in the -ow in cow (...and as a true vowel IN WELSH!) but she never explained these subtleties, and left my seven year old self to press along, quite puzzled for many years.

    That certainly would've made the little "A,e, i, o, u and somtimes Y!" song they taught us much more complicated, requiring more lyrics. Also, not much rhymes with "diphthong."

  • StorypilotStorypilot Posts: 1,675
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:

    That certainly would've made the little "A,e, i, o, u and somtimes Y!" song they taught us much more complicated, requiring more lyrics. Also, not much rhymes with "diphthong."

    yes much more complicated... and not only is it hard to rhyme why does a word like "diphthong" mean a vowel sound when it has all those consonants, anyway...?

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    ÄÖÜ

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    Storypilot said:
    SickleYield said:

    That certainly would've made the little "A,e, i, o, u and somtimes Y!" song they taught us much more complicated, requiring more lyrics. Also, not much rhymes with "diphthong."

    yes much more complicated... and not only is it hard to rhyme why does a word like "diphthong" mean a vowel sound when it has all those consonants, anyway...?

    Let's lobby grammarians to start calling them auoyes.

  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,801
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    RCDeschene said:
    Ledhead said:
    Dr Stupid said:

    My last house was called "Pwll Canol". It was always great fun listening to saesneg visitors' attempts at pronouncing it. Although unfortunately it often sounded a lot more like "Poo Canal" :lol:

    I really like astronomy, the sparkling lights and all, but the last thing I want to talk about is Uranus.

    And this, children, is why I call it "Yer-an-us".

    And this, children, is why I call it "that blue one that's way the heck out there."
    And THIS, children, is why...

    http://youtu.be/UA_1b1nTvDs

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,493
    edited December 1969

    is a dipthong a garment like Borat's mankini for covering your vowels?

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    wendy♥catz said:
    is a dipthong a garment like Borat's mankini for covering your vowels?

    It's what Sailor Uranus wears to cover her Space Sword Blasters.

  • StorypilotStorypilot Posts: 1,675
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    wendy♥catz said:
    is a dipthong a garment like Borat's mankini for covering your vowels?

    It's what Sailor Uranus wears to cover her Space Sword Blasters.

    Mwn Prwncss Halation!!

    http://youtu.be/vOV3k43qTl8

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,214
    edited December 1969

    riftwitch said:
    I thought Mr. Mxzptlk had joined the forums.

    You left the "y" out of Mxyzptlk, but maybe you meant to.
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,214
    edited December 1969

    Today's cryptoquote:

    LE LD OSCV EM HLUOE ST BTBIJ NOM OSD MAEXMDED LT JMAC OBSV. - DSZZJ GBIXEMT

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,273
    edited December 1969

    Kerya said:
    Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    prrrp?

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    He didn't say something about women ...
    ;-)

  • willowfanwillowfan Posts: 240
    edited December 1969

    F U N E T?

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    Kerya said:
    He didn't say something about women ...
    ;-)

    Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
    Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine—
    -Alfred, Lord Tennyson


    Once they believed men were the emotional ones. :D

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    They are still. ;)
    They just don't show it.

    "With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels."
    -Chuck Palahniuk

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