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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Illustrious_Art9093 • 4d ago
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Glides are not letters they are sounds.
Now explain to the class what a vowel is, sparky.
• u/Googz52 3d ago Letters are either consonants or vowels in English. When you go on Wheel of Fortune, you’re not buying sounds—you’re buying letters. “I’d like to buy a vowel, Pat.” Notice “y” is never one of the options. Not all consonants and vowels are also letters, but all letters are either consonants or vowels. • u/PerpetualProtracting 3d ago Absolutely incredible to suggest someone learn the rules of linguistics and then come and use Wheel of Fortune as your defense of failing basic linguistics. • u/Googz52 3d ago Right, because actual usage doesn’t count in Linguistics. Please.
Letters are either consonants or vowels in English.
When you go on Wheel of Fortune, you’re not buying sounds—you’re buying letters.
“I’d like to buy a vowel, Pat.”
Notice “y” is never one of the options.
Not all consonants and vowels are also letters, but all letters are either consonants or vowels.
• u/PerpetualProtracting 3d ago Absolutely incredible to suggest someone learn the rules of linguistics and then come and use Wheel of Fortune as your defense of failing basic linguistics. • u/Googz52 3d ago Right, because actual usage doesn’t count in Linguistics. Please.
Absolutely incredible to suggest someone learn the rules of linguistics and then come and use Wheel of Fortune as your defense of failing basic linguistics.
• u/Googz52 3d ago Right, because actual usage doesn’t count in Linguistics. Please.
Right, because actual usage doesn’t count in Linguistics. Please.
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u/PerpetualProtracting 4d ago
Now explain to the class what a vowel is, sparky.