myrmidex@belgae.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoWithout vowels there'd be no singingmessage-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down13
arrow-up144arrow-down1message-squareWithout vowels there'd be no singingmyrmidex@belgae.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarebdot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·14 hours agobut humming counts as singing, doesn’t it? which means that you COULD sing without vowels
minus-squaremyrmidex@belgae.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·13 hours agoand birds also don’t have official vowels. I’m starting to see the flaws in my thought :)
minus-squaremozingo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 hours 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-24 hours agoI mean those are already halfway to vowels. In Japanese, “N” can be its own syllable.
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 hours agoNo, I would not consider humming singing
minus-squarebdot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours 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
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.
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.
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.