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Ha! I lol’d! Awesomely Clever!
how original
http://www.snorgtees.com/sometimesy-p-252.html?osCsid=01320b6220c4ae1e34b79bbc6ebd3a87
Whoa! They made a shirt of this ALREADY?!!
lulz
A label of some kind would make this better. I know what it means, but…it’s kinda weak.
I disagree, the fact that you have to think about it takes the humor up a notch.
Seconded.
You had to think about it?
seconded.
I had to think about this, because not only is Y obviously a vowel, which English is just as obviously abusing, but the chart also forgot the tremendously important letters Æ, Ø and Å.
Yep. Obviously a vowel.
Sooo… I suppose it makes sense, grammatically, that “you” is a word consisteing of… all vowels?
Koff Koff
“tremendously important letters Æ, Ø and Å.”
WTF
Y is only sometimes a vowel, what are you talking about?
do you even know what the alphabet is?
i don’t get it. venn diagram of vowels and consonants. why lol? please to explain? kthnx.
Isn’t the subject matter in the center section supposed to appliy to both classifications all the time? And since Y is only a vowel sometimes, wouldn’t that mean that technically this diagram isn’t really accurate?
ok, overlap of “y” – that’s what I thought. thought i was missing something else. um … this diagram not funny to me. too pedantic.
Yes, I agree as well. Shallow and pedantic.
Mmm yes. Shallow and pedantic.
Hmm, it appears i’ve spontaenously combusted.
HA!!!! best comments ever ^_^
***masturbates***
Shallow and pedantic! My words exactly!
You are entirely correct.
and entirely boring
just like this graph
where’s the lol?
To make this nerdy you could put the “W” in the middle
haha that’s what i was going to say as well.
My first thought was ‘What about W?’.
You’re forgetting L and R.
Hey, you drag in Welsh, I drag in Polish and Serbocroatian. Or, should I say – Srpski-Hrvatski?
Just put all approximants in the middle. After all, they’re approximants because they approximate vowels, right? That’s why they can carry syllables, and that’s why they have the highest liquidity of all the consonant classes.
[/Linguistics geek]
I didn’t know you could be a middle English/Welsh nerd…
In modern English isn’t Y more frequently used as a vowel than W?
If we were going for non-English languages that use the Roman character set then ij from Dutch should be in the vowels, dd, ff, ll should be in the consonants from Welsh…
I think W can be part of a vowel sound, but not a vowel itself, like R with its r-controlled vowels. Y, on the other hand can be a vowel itself, such as making the long E sound in Happycat.
Are there any words left in English where W is a vowel, not its usual semivowel?
The only one I can ever think of is “own”…
W is NEVER a vowel. The vowel in “own” is “o”, bright one.
W is SOMETIMES a vowel. The “w” in “own” makes a u sound. u=vowel
The vowel in “own” is a diphthong: /oUn/ (SAMPA, ’cause I think IPA is making my comments not show up…). The [o] from the “o”, and the [U] from the “w” (“w” is pronounced as [U] when used as a vowel, in languages that have it).
“W” is as much a vowel in “own” as, say, “Y” is in “buy”… you wouldn’t say “No, the vowel in ‘buy’ is ‘u’”, would you?
Even in English now, “w” represents [w], which is a semivowel form of [U], which is what “w” represents when used as a vowel… just as “y” represents [j], a semivowel form of [I], which is what “y” represents when used as a vowel.
In short: Thanks for playing, come back when you know what you’re talking about.
uhhhhh FAIL?
What about “cwm”?
cwm (plural cwms)
1. A valley, especially one created through glacial action.
that’s Welsh, not English
and my moniker is an English word with no vowels…
It’s when all the planets in the solar system line up
….and that would be when y is considered a vowel….
What about “pwnd”?
That was my thought…
THANK YOU!
*shakes head*
Hey, a tip: put a kapshun above both boxes (‘Vowels’ and ‘Consonants’) and maybe a label like ‘classifcation of letters’ (although it’ll be clear with just the kapshuns!)…
Otherwise, it’s WIN
Caption?
you broke my spell check.
hahah.. that’s awesome. Excellent chuckle to start the day.
If you’re a native English speaker and you don’t get it, you didn’t pay much attention in kindergarden. I think you’ll need to review your notes from that year.
if your a native English speaker then its not called kindergarden that’s only if you speak american. <– also please note the lower case ‘a’ in america
It’s also the case in Canadian English. And when you use “your” instead of “you’re”, your argument of a monopoly on English is pretty weak…
Maybe we should count the number of people in England who speak the language, then count the number of people in the U.S. who speak the language and see which is higher.
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to call tech support in India.
higher population means nothing american English is just a bastardized version of English and being English i can monopolize the language as its mine to monopolize. so suck a stick
How about knowing basic grammatical rules of the language you are attempting to monopolize?
Allow me to fix your comment.
Higher population means nothing. American English is just a bastardized version of English and, being English, I can monopolize the language, as it is mine to monopolize. So suck a stick.
Note how we capitalize the first letter of each sentence. Also take heed of the period between ‘nothing’ and ‘American’, which artfully separates a run-on sentence into two proper sentences. Please remember to put parenthetical phrases, such as ‘being English’, between commas, as they are not essential to the meaning of your sentence.
Of course, I have most likely committed some error in usage of the language myself, as I am correcting another. C’est la vie.
In British English, it’s spelled “monopolise”. You’re failing at every flavour of English.
Your usage of a lower case ‘a’ is incorrect. America is a proper noun, and thus should be capitalized in all instances.
psst… next time use copy and paste, then you won’t look silly trying to correct people when you can’t even use the correct words yourself.
If you’re a native English speaker & you DO get this & lol, you are easily amused.
*yawn*
Isn’t the point of all these sites an easy amusement? If you’re so bored with it why do you come to a site that uses big pictures with goofy captions on each picture? Go read something educational or at least something with more than a one line caption if you’re expecting something more than just a quick laugh…
greens, I´m with you.
I thought/think this was/is a great one. Everybody knows what it means, but explaining a joke removes the whole funny bit. SO STOP DOING IT!!
i think this has been done before…
I agree.
Yeah, I have a shirt that has this on it, but with the w in the middle too.
Looks like someone has had a vowel movement
Very good!!
W can be a vowel too, usually in Welsh loanwords like crwth where it’s pronounced like … well, like a double u. So yeah, with that and labels this could have been good.
ah, but we just make it a double-u. vacuum.
Subtlety = excellence
but it’s not subtle. it’s glaringly obvious. so much so, that when someone loled, i thought I’d missed the joke.
this^
Not on Wheel of Fortune…
“You hear this mess about sometimes Y being a vowel? What a world.”
i learn sometimes y AND w too. cause saying water is like saying ouater. no close mouth for w. or maybe w is only a vowel for choir class.
I don’t think that’s the explanation for W, because really there are not very many consonants that are pronounced by completely closing the mouth. And if you are talking about one part of the mouth touching another, H is in that same category. I think W can be a vowel in other languages, but in English, Y is the only crossover letter AFAIK.
I Dont Get It.
Here’s my system:
long vowels: R L Y W
short vowels: a e i o u oo
consonants: everything else.
There is no ’sometimes’. Y is a vowel as far as I’m concerned.
How are R and L vowels? Are they really? Explain. *curiosity is piqued*
uh-oh. gauntlet thrown. vowel warz!!1!!!!1
Sure, people say they understand it, but can they pronounce Ypsilanti correctly on the first try?
What defines a vowel, anyway? Are we talking acoustically or orthographically? Y takes the place of a vowel in most spelled words, but when we say them, “y” doesn’t always have its own sound–sometimes it does, like the Spanish j, as in “yellow” (I’d call this the cardinal “y” sound in English) but the sound is not present in “baby”… or Ypsilanti (which I looked up and I indeed pronounced correctly on my first try). So I guess what “y” being only sometimes a vowel means that sometimes it takes place of a vowel orthographically because it will sound different in a different word or place, compared to “b”, for example, which will, in English, always sound like “b”.
And R, L and W get their own special category as “semivowels” or “glides”.
(and as a tidbit, I recorded myself saying “yeah” “ye” “you” and “yaw” and in the spectrograms it produced, my “y”s definitely looked like vowels.)
And for anyone who REALLY cares, which you probably do if you’ve read my whole comment, the sound at the beginning of “yellow” is, in the International Phonetic Alphabet, classified as a palatal approximant and represented by the symbol “j”. The symbol “y” corresponds to a rounded front high vowel (we don’t have it in English, but it would be like the vowel in “see” (eee) but with your lips rounded).
Too long. Not reading.
win
fail.
Hi, you forgot that both “y” and “w” are semivowels.
crwth, cwm
Not one person mentioned this was also a popular song in 1984 (or 83′ – cant remember exactly). Look it up kids, Ebn Ozn.
I liked your grapgh!
where is z