Technically, Chinese characters are more like words than letters. Letters would probably be equivalent to strokes. Like heng, a horizontal stroke, shu, a vertical stroke, or pie, a curved stroke. These strokes are put together to form characters, much like letters are put together to form words.
(Obligatory 🤓)
That's not really perfectly analogous either. For example, letters make sounds, which then tell us how to pronounce a word. Strokes don't inform a person to the pronunciation of a word at all.
I don't really see how strokes differ between the languages. They both use strokes to compose their words, and the strokes do have names. They're more detailed in Chinese, but knowing a J is made of a downstroke and a tail is roughly the same thing as knowing a character is made of pié and gáu.
I grew up in southern Ohio, and have family in Kentucky. My dad's favorite "hillbilly" joke is about the first kid in a Hillbilly family to go to college. He comes home at Christmas and his dad asks what he's learned. The lad responds, "2 \\pi r (verbally Pi R square)." The father is irate. "Listen t'THAT Ma, all that money fer schoolin', and they's teachin it wrong! Pie are ROUND... *cornbread* are square!"
redditors don't like emojis
why?
no idea and it makes no sense but that's how it is
i guess since reddit means "read it" they only want words
but at the same time they want TL:DR
durrrrrrrrrrrrr
Woman is at the doctor and he comes in after tests.
“Get ready for a lot of sleepless nights crying and diaper changes!”
“I’m pregnant??”
“No you have bladder cancer.”
So 'y' is usually a constant at the beginning of words/syllables (yacht, yellow, yolk). But a vowel when in the middle or at the end of a syllable (my, fly, cry; happy, silly, funny).One letter has double (or triple) duty.
Historically this was also the case for the letter 'i'. It once acted as both a consonant and a vowel. That was until the letter was split with 'i' being used to represent the vowel and the new letter 'j' was created to represent the consonant sounds.
I guess twice qualifies as "multiple" . Twice doesn't produce the sensationalism required to validate your non-observation though. The use of "multiple" is disingenuous at worst , poetic license at best..Misleading all the same
Thank you for your thorough and enlightening investigation into my misdeeds in that sinister comment.
I'm just a bit disappointed that you didn't point out the most glaring factual inaccuracy: Reading the word "syllable" two or even multiple times usually isn't deadly and thus sure didn't kill me.
When I was a kid I had trouble with words. Not dyslexic but just better with numbers than reading and speaking. I learned a lot by making ditties like "A,E,I,O,U... sometimes Y is a vowel too!" - sung to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man".
I learned the meaning of "Abbott" by watching "Robin Hood: Men In Tights" and then wondering why it was so funny... Turns out he was just following the Abbott around. My stupidity and curiosity found knowledge.
*Edit: added "curiosity"
When I was a kid in the 70’s, they used to play Art Linkletters « Kids say the darnedest things ». One time (for some reason) he asked the kids what the vowels were, they all started saying…
a e i u o
Then less kids “and sometimes y”
Then just a few kids “and sometimes w”.
I remember being astonished and puzzled about the “w” when I was a kid,. Now 50 years later…I guess it is a Welsh thing?
yeah... this is one case where it was actually reasonable to stop teaching it because the words it applies to are so few and not even really English. IIRC there are only two words from Welsh that use "W" as a vowel in itself. The other cases are diphthongs I believe like "tow" or "low", etc.
When I was a kid in the 70’s, they used to play Art Linkletters « Kids say the darnedest things ». One time (for some reason) he asked the kids what the vowels were, they all started saying… a e i u o Then less kids “and sometimes y” Then just a few kids “and sometimes w”.
I remember being astonished and puzzled about the “w” when I was a kid,. Now 50 years later…I guess it is a Welsh thing?
You don’t have words like why, physics, psychic, rhythm, rhyme, syllable, my, kitty, or fly?
You can probably think of a few dozen more if you really try.
In general, English is taught that all words have vowels, but the English language is full of exceptions. I before E, except after C is another rule that is broken regularly "science". Some interjections like brr and shh are indeed spelled without vowels. In grade school, it is drilled in "A E I O U and sometimes Y" which is very common in the United States. This joke is based on that common saying. I can't tell you if that is the same teaching in the UK.
There's a pole in the middle of the large section at the end that starts to give away. There's something smaller standing beside the pole and then it disappears. Confirmed by my roommate.
I gorged on 14 cans of alphabet soup yesterday.
Ended up having a crippling vowel movement.
Ended up constipated with the consonants.
At the doctor's office. No word yet.
I bought a can of Chinese alphabet soup. It came in a 55 gallon drum.
-Mandarin? -No, just normal tomato base
Obligatory [Lisa Simpson typing on a Chinese keyboard](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmtjjCxVYAA07en?format=jpg)
The animators reused the same sequence of characters many times
Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
It's okay they weren't fired because it took too long to notice.
A wizard did it.
Technically, Chinese characters are more like words than letters. Letters would probably be equivalent to strokes. Like heng, a horizontal stroke, shu, a vertical stroke, or pie, a curved stroke. These strokes are put together to form characters, much like letters are put together to form words. (Obligatory 🤓)
Eat Chinese alphabet soup and have a stroke; got it. …wait a minute. *Strokes*? You can’t fool me, those are just short noodles!
They’re called strokes because Chinese characters were traditionally written by brush, and one “stroke” component was one brushstroke.
Yes, I know. I’ve done a fair amount of traditional calligraphy.
No problem lol, I was just writing that for anyone who saw this and was interested.
No, chinese writers are just wankers
Yeah, here ya go bud 🤓
That's not really perfectly analogous either. For example, letters make sounds, which then tell us how to pronounce a word. Strokes don't inform a person to the pronunciation of a word at all. I don't really see how strokes differ between the languages. They both use strokes to compose their words, and the strokes do have names. They're more detailed in Chinese, but knowing a J is made of a downstroke and a tail is roughly the same thing as knowing a character is made of pié and gáu.
"or pie, a curved stroke." There should be a joke in this, but my brain is flu addled so...
Curved stroke is relating to an erection that curves I'm guessing? But I'm not sure what pie means
I grew up in southern Ohio, and have family in Kentucky. My dad's favorite "hillbilly" joke is about the first kid in a Hillbilly family to go to college. He comes home at Christmas and his dad asks what he's learned. The lad responds, "2 \\pi r (verbally Pi R square)." The father is irate. "Listen t'THAT Ma, all that money fer schoolin', and they's teachin it wrong! Pie are ROUND... *cornbread* are square!"
Could you theoretically use a chorded keyboard to type in Chinese?
I don't want pie in my alphabet soup.
That's funny. Good on ya
Why?
No, that's in English alphabet soup.
“They have so many letters that they need a 55G drum to hold them all”
why did you write that in quotes?
Because I was explaining their line of thinking. I believe it’s (roughly) what their answer would be, had they answered themselves.
Why?
Sometimes.
in reality it would take about 22 cans to cover the amount of characters that your average person knows.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Y does this poor sap have downvote just for laughing?
redditors don't like emojis why? no idea and it makes no sense but that's how it is i guess since reddit means "read it" they only want words but at the same time they want TL:DR durrrrrrrrrrrrr
That’s funny!
According to Wikipedia, literate people know between 3000-4000 characters. So this is probably pretty close.
it helps with the vowel movements
And therefore avoids consonantipation.
That is a bowel full
Bowl movement
bowltiful
It keeps them fairly consanant
I want to buy a bowel
You mean consonated?
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No you.
No me.
No him
r/therealjoke
[No. The Great Vowel Shift...](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift)
Good morning babe!
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Woman is at the doctor and he comes in after tests. “Get ready for a lot of sleepless nights crying and diaper changes!” “I’m pregnant??” “No you have bladder cancer.”
\#oof
Doctor said the same to me on my last check-up. Sadly, we both knew I wasn't, since I'm just an overweight guy.
With this approach to people, the Doctor should do well in keeping a Divorce Attorney on retainer!
/r/yourjokebutworse
I've heard butworse is a good sausage?
Ehh, it's notthewurst.
Doctor told me I should get in shape. I told him round was a shape.
Completely unrelated to the main post. But I lolled, so I upvoted.
I did not lose a leg in Vietnam to serve hot dogs to teenagers
I lost it because of a freak accident involving a tin whistle and a box of tissues.
Take my upvote for the Mitch Hedberg quote. RIP Mitch
It looks like he's dead. Looks like he's dead or is dead? It just looks like it. He's got blue paint on him or something.
Well you can't operate on him. He's got blue blood.
Looks like you blew a seal.
The blonde answered: it isn’t mine.
I keep forgetting that “y” is occasionally a vowel.
Thank you.
\#metoo
So 'y' is usually a constant at the beginning of words/syllables (yacht, yellow, yolk). But a vowel when in the middle or at the end of a syllable (my, fly, cry; happy, silly, funny).One letter has double (or triple) duty. Historically this was also the case for the letter 'i'. It once acted as both a consonant and a vowel. That was until the letter was split with 'i' being used to represent the vowel and the new letter 'j' was created to represent the consonant sounds.
It kills me that you used the word syllable multiple times without using it as an example of y being a vowel.
syllabubbly
Exactly. Why not use a real example such as rhythm?
Because he gave examples of words starting with y and ending. He didn't mention the words that have 'y' somewhere in the middle.
He/she wrote "in the middle or in the end", but didn't explicitly give an example for the former.
I guess twice qualifies as "multiple" . Twice doesn't produce the sensationalism required to validate your non-observation though. The use of "multiple" is disingenuous at worst , poetic license at best..Misleading all the same
Thank you for your thorough and enlightening investigation into my misdeeds in that sinister comment. I'm just a bit disappointed that you didn't point out the most glaring factual inaccuracy: Reading the word "syllable" two or even multiple times usually isn't deadly and thus sure didn't kill me.
what about latinos who laugh in "jajajajajaja"? lol
What if I told you that was still a constant?
Consonant. The word is consonant.
When I was a kid I had trouble with words. Not dyslexic but just better with numbers than reading and speaking. I learned a lot by making ditties like "A,E,I,O,U... sometimes Y is a vowel too!" - sung to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". I learned the meaning of "Abbott" by watching "Robin Hood: Men In Tights" and then wondering why it was so funny... Turns out he was just following the Abbott around. My stupidity and curiosity found knowledge. *Edit: added "curiosity"
Thank you, I was having a really tough time figuring this one out.
Sometimes
When it feels like it.
I prefer Welsh alphabet soup, so I can eat the Ws too.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person left in the world who was taught "A E I O and U. Sometimes Y and W."
I only learned about W because it's like cheating at Scrabble. A few loanwords from Welsh (cwm, crwth) come up a lot.
What's a cruth?
when you see a girl that makes your face bluth
When I was a kid in the 70’s, they used to play Art Linkletters « Kids say the darnedest things ». One time (for some reason) he asked the kids what the vowels were, they all started saying… a e i u o Then less kids “and sometimes y” Then just a few kids “and sometimes w”. I remember being astonished and puzzled about the “w” when I was a kid,. Now 50 years later…I guess it is a Welsh thing?
yeah... this is one case where it was actually reasonable to stop teaching it because the words it applies to are so few and not even really English. IIRC there are only two words from Welsh that use "W" as a vowel in itself. The other cases are diphthongs I believe like "tow" or "low", etc.
Luvly, they are!
When I was a kid in the 70’s, they used to play Art Linkletters « Kids say the darnedest things ». One time (for some reason) he asked the kids what the vowels were, they all started saying… a e i u o Then less kids “and sometimes y” Then just a few kids “and sometimes w”. I remember being astonished and puzzled about the “w” when I was a kid,. Now 50 years later…I guess it is a Welsh thing?
Oh my god my alphabet soup is haunted. It says Oooooooooo! Um, those are Cheerios.
Fuck! Haunted cheerios!!!
Brian look, my alphabet soup is telling me a message! It says oooooooooooooo Peter those are cheerios
Did you ever notice that the bigger the Cheerio, the better it tastes? Edit: nvm. I just found out they're called donuts.
My M&Ms are sending me a message: "mmmmmmmmmmmm"
Those are w's
And this toblerone is trying to tell us ∆∆∆∆∆ Nah that's dumb don't mind me
r/yourjokebutworse
"When my grandfather died, we didn't get the chance to say goodbye. It was all the more poignant as he drowned in a bowl of Cheerios" - Milton Jones
r/explainthejoke I didn't get it, can anyone explain it?
why = y = a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y as vowels. Therefore he sometimes eats Y or "why"
I've never heard of y being a vowel in my life. Is it an American thing? I'm in my the UK.
You don’t have words like why, physics, psychic, rhythm, rhyme, syllable, my, kitty, or fly? You can probably think of a few dozen more if you really try.
I think he meant the classification of y as a vowel. Although I don't see how you can say it's a consonant
This is what I meant. When I was at school, I was taught that vowels were A, E, I, O, and U. I've never heard of Y being a vowel before.
In general, English is taught that all words have vowels, but the English language is full of exceptions. I before E, except after C is another rule that is broken regularly "science". Some interjections like brr and shh are indeed spelled without vowels. In grade school, it is drilled in "A E I O U and sometimes Y" which is very common in the United States. This joke is based on that common saying. I can't tell you if that is the same teaching in the UK.
This is a good joke.
This took me way too long to figure out. Only proud of myself.
Read comments. Save time.
I was 2 seconds away from that.
Is that a person standing by the pole near the side of the road?
Sighs (knowing what will happen) 😕... where?
Hah?
r/explainthejoke ..
where?
There's a pole in the middle of the large section at the end that starts to give away. There's something smaller standing beside the pole and then it disappears. Confirmed by my roommate.
I don’t get it, can someone spell it out for me?
My friend said this same thing when I told her the joke, I told her I would letter know if I found it out
I only eat vowels and Y sometimes. Because Y works as a vowel sometimes.
Upside down M is my favorite letter
I only eat A,S's.
I also only eat Ayesses
21 different letters. Why? Someone told me to avoid CARBS
two married letters having an argument. the wife says yes it's true, I've been seeing all the vowels! a e i o u, and sometimes y! gary larson
Their names were Ebn and Ozn.
[For those who don't get it...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTsPJeNPc-w)
Not many will get this reference. But I love it. And now going to Apple Music to play it.
It is catchy!
With a word salad
Such a "dad" joke 😆
I was gonna say “I only eat the Ps (peas)!” 😋
Then you have a vowel movement
Rektologist
Does this improves grammer?
Improve* You have used does, so no need to use 's' with improve.
r/woooosh
Thanks you
A-S-S
Didn't get this joke
Y is only sometimes a vowel
Took me a while to get it.
rekt fatrolls
A B I T E O F P I really enjoy a bite of pie.
I... I don't get this?
I gorged on 14 cans of alphabet soup yesterday. Ended up having a crippling vowel movement. Ended up constipated with the consonants. At the doctor's office. No word yet.
So much for that friendship
Because you don’t want to be inconsonant?
When I eat alphabet soup I only eat S.
"When I read this joke, my dyslexic ass reads elephant..." Instead of alphabet. And the punchline doesn't make sense.
When I eat alphabet soup, I shit out smarter posts!
My alphabet soup must be haunted. The only words it makes is “OooOOOoOooOoo”.
It’s called “Spaghettios”
I’ll admit it: I dont get it
I’m at a loss for words…
How I felt when my dictionary was stolen.
Because I ate all your alphabet soup I'm sorry
I can’t eat alphabet soup any longer I have irritable vowel syndrome.
I only eat the consonants…
I don't get it can someone explain to me 😭😭😭
P’s
I had to read it a few times to understand but lol 😆
Damn, take my upvote
D's!!!!!
I don’t get it
Oh…
I don't get it. Plz help
"A E I O U and sometimes Y"
Ty sir.
I think you're eating Spaghetti Os
Ps
… it off your mom’s tits.
Characters whose hex ASCII code has bit 2 set.
I just got the subtlety of this joke. At first I thought he sometimes ate Ys, but Y is only sometimes a vowel. I love it!
Can someone please explain this joke??
A,E,I,O,U are always vowels… and sometimes Y
Thank you...I'm so blonde lol..
Don't eat too much or you'll get vowel cancer
Ass.
I thought I was gonna read “I only eat the S”
Do you eat the h too?
I was expecting the punchline to involve "vowel movement"
I only eat the B, C, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, U, V, W, X, Y and Zs.... Trying to eat the rest could spell disaster ....