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[Gurm]

I've never liked the "sometimes Y is a vowel" thought. I like to think of it as a "very special consonant". Kinda like the "very special episode" of every series on the NBC fall lineup.

In English, the letter W is quite specifically NOT a vowel. Never has been, never will be. I don't care if it's "double-U". It's not a vowel. In welsh, sure. They have words consisting solely of C's, W's, and M's. And the Chinese have letters we can't even hear ('cuz your aural comprehension is locked to a dialect before you're even a year old). Doesn't mean those letters are vowels in english.

STOP bastardising the language.

- Gurm

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by thop
nope, wrong

Originally posted by Greebe
Y is a Vowel sometimes in the english language... it's just that kids today aren't taught all that they could be unlike what us older folks know to be true.

Listen and learn

Amazing.. Thop, I gave you more credit than you deserved apparently. Greebe is correct (though his English is sometimes mangled in his posts ).. Y is most definitely a vowel, in many if not most cases. Every, many, tiny, etc., are all very good instances of where y is obviously a vowel. As I was taught very early, w also was included as a sometimes thing, but I swear the teacher must have been Welsh. I find is very amusing that you should be telling me what's right and wrong in English. As though I would presume to tell Thomas Mann what was right and wrong in German. Humph!

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by BuddMan
Um....English majors (like myself), professors, teachers, etc, if they know anything about English, will agree that y is not a vowel.

You are an English major, BuddMan? ROFLMAO! Amazing that you would trumpet your ignorance in this way. Don't you have any common sense? Y is obviously a vowel in many cases. How ignorant can you be?

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by thop
how can Y sometimes be a vowel.

Because English is a bastardized language, and has been since the Norman conquest. Not nearly as cut and dried as German. (Though German has its own ways of not making any sense with some of its idiomatic phrases.)

[KvHagedorn]

btw, very good comments from Dr. Mordrid and Rakido here. When you see "w" in situations like "pew" or "dew", the letter is really no more a vowel than "r" would be in "car" or "far." And GNEP, I find it amazing that in England, y should not be recognized as an oftentime vowel. What else would you call it in words such as "fry" and "by?"

[az]

As a child, I've always wondered why Y would not be considered a vowel. It's rarely used in german (In fact, only foreign words come to mind), but where it is used, it's used as a vowel. I've stopped wondering since, as the general consensus is "it's a consonant. Everyone says so, so why should I think it's a vowel?".

AZ

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Novdid
Well it's timed and if you can answer all Q in the test in a matter of seconds then you're a genious right...

Right!

I did the test normally and got 106, then I re-did the test in under 20 seconds using the exact same answers and I got 144, then I re-did the test again using the exact same answers at the age of 6 and I got 191. So the amount of time it takes to take the test DOES matter!

Age matters also. Good thing my memory is strong other wise I wouldn't have been able too answers those questions as quickly as I wanted to.

[Gurm]

Yeah. Broken test, much like all the others on the internet. This one is worse, since it has wrong answers in addition to being heavily age and time weighted.

- Gurm

[Lizzard[MPE]]

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[KvHagedorn]

As a matter of fact, anyone who would answer these questions so recklessly that they would be able to get done within the 12 minute time limit would likely be unqualified to do graduate level research at any university, where double-checking your work is an absolute necessity.

[Pneumatic]

Congratulations! Your general IQ score is 144.
A person whose IQ score falls in the range of 144-160 is considered to be "gifted".


W00t!

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by Greebe
and to think earlier today I was going to message you just to let you know I have no hard feelings and now you turn around and behave like a spoiled brat who not only has a comprehension problem, but a major chip on his shoulder... get over it Budd.

BTW your answer would be incorrect on the IQ test.

I would have laughed at your pm.

BTW, what's your prob?? I never knew you had one in the first place. Maybe you should pm me about it.

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn


You are an English major, BuddMan? ROFLMAO! Amazing that you would trumpet your ignorance in this way. Don't you have any common sense? Y is obviously a vowel in many cases. How ignorant can you be?

It CAN be both, but by itself it is not a vowel.

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by Gurm
I've never liked the "sometimes Y is a vowel" thought. I like to think of it as a "very special consonant". Kinda like the "very special episode" of every series on the NBC fall lineup.

In English, the letter W is quite specifically NOT a vowel. Never has been, never will be. I don't care if it's "double-U". It's not a vowel. In welsh, sure. They have words consisting solely of C's, W's, and M's. And the Chinese have letters we can't even hear ('cuz your aural comprehension is locked to a dialect before you're even a year old). Doesn't mean those letters are vowels in english.

STOP bastardising the language.

- Gurm

I pretty much agree.

There are many English majors that disagree with the whole y being a vowel thing. I remember when I was taught in Jr High that it was only a consonant, when in High School it was adressed as both. And then I had a college professor at McMurry (in Abilene) who disagreed with the both theory, but then had a professor at SWT (here in San Marcos) who says either theory is right and says it's all perspective. As for me....just give me a dictionary while I write a paper and I'll be fine.

[Greebe]

Don't forget you contradicted yourself... Y is sometimes a vowel, so your entire anti Greebe sentiment is moot.

BTW Try posting sometime when your not stoned off your arse and you'll make alot more sense.