beatboxing intensifies
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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You meant btbxng intnsfs.
Dang is that a new filesystem? I know btrfs but haven't heard about ntnsfs
*ntnsfs.
N vwls rmmbr
Dmnt! Thnks!
bvsl
nnnn ts nnn nn-nn ts
but humming counts as singing, doesn’t it? which means that you COULD sing without vowels
and birds also don't have official vowels. I'm starting to see the flaws in my thought :)
Without vogels there'd be no tweeting.
without kegels there'd be no squeezing
Yea, some voiced consonants like L, M, N, R and maybe Y would work fine for singing, I think. Like if we only had words like "Hm", or "Lt" (pronounced similar to "ult"), you could sing it fine.
I mean those are already halfway to vowels. In Japanese, "N" can be its own syllable.
No, I would not consider humming singing
well - Wikipedia seems to disagree, and says “common definitions include "the utterance of words or sounds in tuneful succession"”
and that was just the first place i looked.
30 years ago my music teacher told me that in Chinese-language singing it's the consonants that are sustained.
And also vowel (open-mouth) sounds. They just hold consonant sounds like English singers holds vowel sounds.
Gd sv r grcs Kng, Lng lv r nbl Kng, Gd sv th Kng! Snd hm vctrs, Hpp nd glrs, Lng t rgn vr s, Gd sv th Kng!
That's just Hungarian
Or Klingon
I'm a scat man!
Tell me more
I'm all crusted up and ready to eat
What?
The OG skibidi toilet
Look up syllabic consonants :)
I feel like this is a bit like saying "If cars didn't have wheels, there would be no Formula 1".
Hmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm, mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmmmmm,
Once there was this girl and...
Rrrrr zzzzzssssnnnnmmmmnn nh nh nh
without cum there'd be no cumshot