myrmidex@belgae.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWithout vowels there'd be no singingmessage-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWithout vowels there'd be no singingmyrmidex@belgae.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squarebdot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agobut humming counts as singing, doesn’t it? which means that you COULD sing without vowels
minus-squaremozingo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months 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-up0·4 months agoI mean those are already halfway to vowels. In Japanese, “N” can be it’s own syllable.
minus-squaremyrmidex@belgae.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoand birds also don’t have official vowels. I’m starting to see the flaws in my thought :)
minus-squarefratermus@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agowithout kegels there’d be no squeezing
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoNo, I would not consider humming singing
minus-squarebdot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months 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.
but humming counts as singing, doesn’t it? which means that you COULD sing without vowels
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 it’s 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
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.