242

What a great try (startrek.website)

submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/funny@lemmy.world

94 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 63 points 6 months ago

Sequoia 😌

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 22 points 6 months ago

Well done

[-] DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

Education (´･ᴗ･ ` )

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

[-] custard_swollower@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I hear this photo

[-] Pantrygheist@programming.dev 43 points 6 months ago

Tsk is an onomatopoeia for disapproval

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hmm, pst, grr, mmm, all acceptable words in Scrabble https://scrabble.merriam.com/words-without-vowels

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Try, cry, pry, wry... <- Except that in these instances, Y is the vowel. Unless you're playing Wheel of Fortune, where Ys are always counted as consonants and cost nothing to play.

[-] enkille@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Hmm, not sure if there are.

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Rhythm technically

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 months ago

Rhythm's not a vowelless word.

Rhythm is a dancer.

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

In rhythm, y functions as a vowel, as it makes a vowel sound.

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] force@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Spelling-wise? Depends on what you mean by "vowel" and "word" – vowel isn't really a term for letters/spelling, it only really makes sense in a phonemic/phonetic context. So, phonetically? Yes – i.e. words that only have a rhotic in the nucleus like "curd" which is just [kɹ̩d] in many rhotic dialects like most American English, "and" is often pronounced [n̩], "can" can be [kn̩]~[kŋ̍], "full" can be pronounced [fʟ̩] in some dialects (includinɡ mine). You can also include paralinguistic words like "shh" [ʃ̩].

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

I was going to post a less in depth reply along the same lines. Don't know why you're being downvoted.

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] voidskull@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago

Rhythm !!

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

Only by wheel of fortune rules.

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] mihnt@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_without_vowels

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Those aren’t really English “words” though. There’s some old welsh in there which actually used W as a double U. And then some onomatopoeia, which while defined in some dictionaries, aren’t really words anymore than abbreviations like CIA or FCC are words.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

According to the Cambridge English dictionary a word is simply "a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written", so acronyms and onomatopoeia are words as much as any other apparently. Maybe they would consider an acronym multiple units of language bound together though so not itself a word.

load more comments (9 replies)

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

A cwm (pronounced /ˈkuːm/) is used in English in a technical geographical or mountaineering context to mean a deep hollow in a mountainous area

Uhuh...

[-] Neil@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

I'm about to cwm.

[-] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Pppffffttttt

[-] doctorn@r.nf 12 points 6 months ago

Fun fact: In Dutch 'vowels' is the same word as is used for 'streetstones' (klinkers), so if you ask this question in Dutch, the answer is 'dirtroad'. 😅

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] tacosanonymous@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 6 months ago

Ply?

But only if you reject the "sometimes y" clause.

[-] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

rhythm.

I think there might be a sometimes w clause too. But any w words I can think of have a y anyway

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

W is a sometimes vowel in Welsh. There are a few Welsh words that are valid in Scrabble dictionaries, which is really the only metric that matters. There are also several onomatopoeias that are valid Scrabble words, like mmm or brr or tsktsks. That last one is the only 7 letter word with no vowels or sometimes vowels.

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 6 months ago

Maaan, everything is a vowel if you just Welsh it hard enough.

[-] ryry1985@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

What?

load more comments (14 replies)

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Tsk tsk

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Myst

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Y functions as a vowel in this instance

[-] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

You can't just identify as a vowel.

[-] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

Y can and does. You have a problem with that? Go complain on the internet.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] SpringMango7379@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Tch!

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kyrgyz... styrn.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago

Hsptl?

[-] nbafantest@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I honestly dont know how people come up with these answers

load more comments

this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023

242 points (94.5% liked)

Funny: Home of the Haha

4834 readers

551 users here now

Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.

Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!

Our Rules:

Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.
No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.
Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.

Other Communities:

/c/TenForward@lemmy.world - Star Trek chat, memes and shitposts
/c/Memes@lemmy.world - General memes

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Anticorp@lemmy.world