Here i am, mouthing letters in the bathroom stall
Reached the letter o and got a surprise from the hole in the wall
“Instructions unclear, started accidental glory hole”
Oh! Pee!
I am also taking a shit and mouthing letters bro
I too am delaying the wipe!
I just BMPW’d while taking a shit as well
They also touch when you just shut the hell up.
I would have been happier if it was a goose
B M P W
I feel like double u is cheating since that’s just b again.
I’d argue ‘f’ they don’t press hard but they lightly touch
Bro what are you doing with your lips? “F” is top teeth on lower lip.
What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?
My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.
you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it’s generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.
That would interrupt airflow would it not?
You don’t purse the lips together, they’re lightly touching allowing air to go through
Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.
Could be regional yeah. Interesting!
Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.
Y
Instead of W, you mean
Sometimes
W still leaves an opening tho
They’re probably pronouncing it as “Double-U”…
well it only touches at the B sound and we already had B so…
How else is it pronounced?
as a phoneme, it’s a bilabial approximant - meaning the lips form the sound by moving close but not touching and then parting again
compare to the palatal approixmant /y/ formed by the root of the tongue performing a similar action with the soft palate.
just like in “We”
You don’t pronounce “we” as “double ue” do you?
Like … Have you ever read a word with w in it?
I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.
Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.
Thanks for making me laugh!
Edit: in German it is pronounced “we”, with the e like in ketchup.
I vote we change it in English to be pronounced like in German. It always bugged me that it’s the only multisyllabic letter name. Along the same lines, we should rename seven to sev.
The time save when pronouncing “www” is incredible. 🙃
I sometimes like reading or listening to stories of people scamming scammers. He used this exact thing to really confuse the scammer.
“Please type in double u double double u…”
“Alright, I typed in double u double u double… It says page not found” (i.e. uuuuuu)
In German y is not pronounced as “why”, but instead as “Ypsilon”. You win some you lose some I guess.
More infuriating is “e” - it’s pronounced as “I” ffs! But when in a word only if it’s the first letter or something. Otherwise it’s pronounced as “e” as it rightfully should be!
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It doesn’t say “no opening”, it just says “lips touch”. My lips can touch without completely closing.
ok but for “we” the opening is large enough for them to not touch at all
Bruh what are you smoking? My lips don’t touch for W. They don’t even move half the time.
They do for double u
I get 6, yours plus F and Y.
That’s wrong! There are only three bilabial letters! P, M, and B. F and V are labiodental
W
That’s labial velar approximate. We don’t say “bwatermelon” just because the letter is pronounced with a B
You’re right about how you would refer to each sound in use but the meme doesn’t say that there are 4 bilabials
doubleyouatermelon
What? Can you say the word double without your lips touching? I can’t
What sorcery is this knowledge you speak of?
Phonetics.
What about W?
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your lips dont touch for w
They do in American English at least
edit: I realize now you’re talking about its use within words, but a lot of us here assume that the meme is referring to saying each letter individually.
Yeah but thats the b in douBleyu
Double U has a B in it which causes your lips to touch
Same with dubya or dubyou.
But not in the W sound
Mine do. I must be a freak of nature.
I don’t know what that means but it reminds me of the movie Teeth.
These indicate place of articulation of the sound that come out of your mouth. It’s one of 3 main ways to categorize consonants in linguistics, or more precisely in phonetics.
Bilabial consonants are made when both lips are touching for example, while labiodental consonants are made when lower lips are touching upper teeth.
Pronouncing the letter, or saying the letter’s name?
I get three for the former, and four for the latter.
The latter
Pronouncing the letter, or saying the letter’s name?
A, George B, Hollis
But seriously, what?
Pronouncing the letter - Ay, bee, cee
Saying the letters name???
The letter “B” is not pronounced “bee”, that is how you pronounce the name of the letter. It makes a “buh” sound.
The important one is “W” because if you name the letter, “double yew” your lips will touch. If you pronounce the letter, “wuh wuh,” then your lips do not touch.
The other letters are M and P, and your lips touch both saying the name and making the sound the letter represents.
Wuh what sound do you think “W” makes?
/w/
as opposed to /dəbl’yju:/
Ohh how it’s pronounced in words!
If you pronounce the letter, “wuh wuh,” then your lips do not touch.
Your lips don’t touch making w in wuh?
In the middle? No, but if we’re including touching at the corners, then O, U, F, V, G, J, Q, and Y all join the party.
W has a ‘b’ sound in the name, but doesn’t when used in a word.
Saying their name I get zero.
Say “B, M, P” without closing your mouth.
They’re named Eric what did you name yours?
I didn’t rename them. They have names. B, M, and P.
Whatever floats your oat
I fucking checked, too.
Saw someone describe the plot of Bee Movie the other day as: man cucked by bee. I cannot look at this movie the same anymore.
Only one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.
We should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.
If you were wondering, it got named “double u” when u and v were the same letter, V was used at the beginning of words and u ain the middle/end. It wasn’t till much later they were seperated into 2 glyphs for different sounds.
In German it’s called a Doppel-Vau, with Vau being the letter V.
In Dutch it’s just called wee, none of this double bullshit
In German it’s V = Fau, W = Vee.
Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?
No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German
No, I’m not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn’t use it.
Can’t. The band would sue.
And then would accidentally put music in your library.
Behold, the bilabials
What is last one? B, m, p are obvious.
W
When wording worries without end. No. Didn’t close even once.
I took it as meaning the names. The b in double-u has your lips touch
You’re saying your Ws wrong.
The letter itself. Double you “w”
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V.
Your lips don’t touch for V, it’s your top teeth to your bottom lip. If your lips touched, it’d be B.
This is why mmm bop and mmm mmm mmm are perfect songs.
Oooonce, there was these kids who, made song called mmm bop just to ear worm you-oo
Something I noticed the other day. At least in the later seasons, the South Park lip sync matches the dialog so accurately, the mouth model shows the tongue only when the character is saying an L syllable
They are: K-I-S-S :-P
5
Y?
(nvm, y in english has no p)
Mine slightly touch for f
For me (german native speaker, also trainee voice actor), f has my upper teeth on my lower lips while still leaving a gap to the upper lips.
Tho, indeed, if you count a few percent on the sides, it could be counted.
I wouldn’t count it; but I see how one could do it
I feel like W shouldn’t count since it’s basically just borrowing from B though.
Same with Y in German
