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I got an online friend, we were discussing names for our RP characters. I told her if she would like a character which name started with a vowel or with a CONSONANT. She asked me "What's a consonant?" I was speechless, I didn't know how to react since I thought that's something you learn in elementary school or earlier. She's 18, she goes to school, she got access to the internet, wtf?
Is it normal to NOT know what a consonant is?
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MoeLester
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
Maybe she just had a brain fart. Don't make such a big deal about it. Just attempt to explain it to her, and get on with your life, lad!
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zeeermeno
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: MoeLester
No, really, I told her "Look up for it" since this kind of stuff always happen (like that one time she told me she didn't know who the Beatles were) and I always end up telling her. She just copy/pasted a bunch of complicated meanings and said "I'm bad with english".

I'm not the best either (english is not even my main language) but english is her ONLY language, she's american. I was asking because maybe in america the word "consonant" may not be so common but.......yeah really.
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Justsomejerk
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
Imaginary friends > online friends
You can even imagine theyre smart.
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Allistalla
11 months, 1 week ago | pl
@: Justsomejerk
wiat no ? do you mean the oppisate of a vowel ? like A E I O U sometimes Y and than everthing else ? like letter B , D , X , Z ? Ok maybe she just isnt good in English maybe thats her second laguage or maybe she not that bright . I dont know , but know if you been learning english your whole life I think that would be the bear basic . Um, maybe she thought you ment Contenent ? like Africa I dont know ...
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Allistalla
11 months, 1 week ago | pl
@: Allistalla
I do not know I remember that and I already graduated I remember alot of the grammer rules auctully like what is a noun ,adjective, Alliteration maybe she doesnt remember ? I dont know I know that ? OO
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disthing
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
I have a Polish friend who thought Africa was one country :/
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Allistalla
11 months, 1 week ago | pl
@: disthing
I thought it was a continent ?
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alv1592
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
Does she not speak much English? That's the only explanation I can think of.
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zeeermeno
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: alv1592
She's american, english is her only language.
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suckonthis9
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
Perhaps the best reply to your friend might have been:
Google > Consonant > Wikipedia.
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iEatZombies_
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
Nah, not normal. Not a big deal, either.
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Captain_Kegstand
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
I don't think that is normal, how can you speak a language fluently if you have no idea how it works?

My opinion is biased though because there are very few bilingual people here, and I am not one of them.
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aussiewolf
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
the only people who know what consonants and vowels are, are the ones that watched Wheel of Fortune.
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disthing
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: aussiewolf
Or Countdown :)
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Allistalla
11 months, 1 week ago | pl
@: aussiewolf
I know it ? but I do love that show ^^ .
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nobleserpent
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
Isn't a consonant things like "m" "b" "d"?

-Edit-

Put the Consonants in parentheses for clarity.
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zeeermeno
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: nobleserpent
Those are not parentheses but yeah, those are consonants.
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disthing
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: nobleserpent
Parantheses = ( ) [ ] { }
Quotation marks = " " ' ' ‘’
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Allistalla
11 months, 1 week ago | pl
@: nobleserpent
Its anything that is not a vowel like A E I O U and sometimes Y . y is sometimes a vowel sometimes a cosanant so anything not a vowel . This is what you need to know to play hangman XD I love that game .
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theabider
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
I have always been disgusted when someone has a stupid question, and instead of googling it (they are obviously online) they ask you. Are they just trying to convince me they're dumb?
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zeeermeno
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: theabider
I agree.
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dappled
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
I always judge how obscure words are by whether I know them in another language. Apart from English, there isn't a single other language I could tell you the word for either vowel or consonant in. I don't think it's normal to not know them in your own language, but some people really don't care about certain things. My friend doesn't know the capital of either Egypt or Greece. He says he doesn't care.
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emilydoll
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
... I had to think about it
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nobleserpent
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: emilydoll
Lol
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Avant-Garde
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
This is a Educational fail of mass proportions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant
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gncp
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
NO!
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charli.m
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
Right so I posted a long reply to a different story and it somehow got posted on this story. Sorry OP, I deleted it :-S and now I feel obligated to put an answer to your story heh.

Maybe she didn't know the word for it? It's a disturbing thought that someone could NOT know what a consonant was...but perhaps she just didn't realise that that was the name for it?
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zeeermeno
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
@: charli.m
Lol, yeah I noticed but it's okay xDDDDDDDDDDD
Thanks and yeah, that was it, she told me she didn't know they had names......but still. Thanks though.
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DontGiveUp
11 months, 1 week ago | pl
no... it is not... and your roleplay? COOL! I love roleplaying! Is there anyway i can contact you, like through a website or someting?
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nAt2017
10 months ago | pl
It's not normal, but she probably just had a moment of memory loss. I forgot the word "carousel" once. We all make mistakes, I wouldn't worry.
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kittylitter101
9 months ago | pl
She's a dumbass.
Or no one informed her....
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