All English words have vowels in them?

[fayebelly]

You guys are all missing it!

Text speak!

It's the new generation of the English language where we don't bother with vowels!

... I actually had a friend who wrote her English essay for an exam in text speak, just because she was so used to using it... ¬¬

[Daionii]

fayebelly

... I actually had a friend who wrote her English essay for an exam in text speak, just because she was so used to using it... ¬¬

Are you serious?
There's a professor at my university who's working hard to prove that this doesn't happen xD

[Daionii]

PAnZuRiEL

Daionii

All words have vowels. It's literally impossible to pronounce words without vowels. There are only some certain combinations of consonants you can make, surely :/
Spelling-wise, then sure, there are bound to be words without vowels, I guess. But not phonetically? D:

I can't think of any English words without vowels, but there are words in other languages without vowels, like Czech "prst", which means finger or toe.

English is expected to have a vowel in every syllable, but that's not technically the case. Since there can be syllables without vowels, and there can be monosyllabic words, it follows that it's mechanically possible to have a vowel-less word. However, English stress rules forbid it. A stressed syllable must have a vowel, end of story, and monosyllabic words always consist of a single stressed syllable (except for the articles, but they both contain vowels anyway). An unstressed syllable can have a reduced vowel (schwa) or none at all (in which case it needs a syllabic sonorant).

I totally forgot about Slavic languages there for a second XD Their r's are interesting. I'm sure there must be some sort of vowel happening between [p] and [r]? Maybe like the schwa? But I don't know.
So it is possible to have words with no vowels, just not in English? Right. Thanks!

Agh I'm such a nerd. I have no lectures today yet here I am, linguistics-nerding anyway XD

[PAnZuRiEL]

Daionii

I totally forgot about Slavic languages there for a second XD Their r's are interesting. I'm sure there must be some sort of vowel happening between [p] and [r]? Maybe like the schwa? But I don't know.
So it is possible to have words with no vowels, just not in English? Right. Thanks!

Agh I'm such a nerd. I have no lectures today yet here I am, linguistics-nerding anyway XD

No, there's no vowel in prst. It's a syllabic /r/. Liquids are highly sonorant, so it all works out.

[Caerthakatha]

fayebelly

You guys are all missing it!

Text speak!

It's the new generation of the English language where we don't bother with vowels!

... I actually had a friend who wrote her English essay for an exam in text speak, just because she was so used to using it... ¬¬

People do that all the time at my school. D: It makes me worried for the future of
the country, especially when they say things like "WTF" and "LOL" in normal
conversation. Or some of the more complicated chat-speak. I just use Hetalisms
to get back at them when they do that. Makes me seem like a real weeaboo when
I do that, but they look like an idiot for saying "bee arr bee" when they go somewhere.

[Daionii]

PAnZuRiEL

No, there's no vowel in prst. It's a syllabic /r/. Liquids are highly sonorant, so it all works out.

Ah, I haven't learnt about syllabic /r/'s yet. I'mma look it up.

[Punkinacan]

In Germanic languages there are no words without a vowel. It is our way of speaking. We cannot cope without vowels. The consonants are only there for dramatic effect.

[Shura Aiken]

jewish never had vowels, EVER.

Tenakh was originally Tnkh

[Daionii]

Shura Aiken

jewish never had vowels, EVER.

Tenakh was originally Tnkh

Are you talking about spelling?

[Oligator]

Myth.

[PAnZuRiEL]

Shura Aiken

jewish never had vowels, EVER.

Tenakh was originally Tnkh

Hebrew always had vowels, they just never used to write them in. Now they frequently do, with diacritics.

[DethSlayr]

Yeah english is just liek that.. spanish and french, probably soem others are as well... without vowels words would be hard to pronounce. If you had something called like.. hlnj you could probably pronounce tthat.. but if you try formulating words w/o vowels, it's hard to get a bunch of sounds in a row w/o one

[Mayve Yume Draygon]

You know I never really thought it before, but its true. In english there's always a vowel present, heck look at 'a' its just a vowel and a word all by itself. hm. Oh wait words that represent sounds/vocalisations often don't have vowels, but I don't know if those count.

shh, hm, mmm, grr.
Thats all I can think of for now.

[HER0 PR0TAG0NIST]

An Unknown Kunoichi

What about Onomatopoeic words? >< Like bzzz, shhh etc.

And the one word that always gets me is "rhythms" sweatdrop I always try to avoid using it in Music class. D:<

I think bzzz is spelled buzz not really sure about shhh though.