Is it normal to not know what a consonant is?

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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 years ago

    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 years ago

      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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      • User-name
        6 years ago

        How can you not know- kidding, I only knew 'of' The Beatles til sophomore year of high school (thanks music history teacher), and of course we listened to their best songs. Loved em ever since.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    Imaginary friends > online friends
    You can even imagine theyre smart.

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    • Allistalla
      11 years ago

      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 years ago

        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 years ago

    I have a Polish friend who thought Africa was one country :/

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    • Allistalla
      11 years ago

      I thought it was a continent ?

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  • iEatZombies_
    11 years ago

    Nah, not normal. Not a big deal, either.

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  • suckonthis9
    11 years ago

    Perhaps the best reply to your friend might have been:
    Google > Consonant > Wikipedia.

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  • alv1592
    11 years ago

    Does she not speak much English? That's the only explanation I can think of.

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    • zeeermeno
      11 years ago

      She's american, english is her only language.

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    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 years ago

    the only people who know what consonants and vowels are, are the ones that watched Wheel of Fortune.

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    • Allistalla
      11 years ago

      I know it ? but I do love that show ^^ .

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    • disthing
      11 years ago

      Or Countdown :)

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  • theabider
    11 years ago

    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 years ago

      I agree.

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  • nobleserpent
    11 years ago

    Isn't a consonant things like "m" "b" "d"?

    -Edit-

    Put the Consonants in parentheses for clarity.

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    • zeeermeno
      11 years ago | pl

      Those are not parentheses but yeah, those are consonants.

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    • disthing
      11 years ago

      Parantheses = ( ) [ ] { }
      Quotation marks = " " ' ' ‘’

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    • Allistalla
      11 years ago

      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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  • kittylitter101
    11 years ago

    She's a dumbass.
    Or no one informed her....

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  • nAt2017
    11 years ago

    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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  • DontGiveUp
    11 years ago

    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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  • charli.m
    11 years ago

    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 years ago

      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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  • gncp
    11 years ago

    NO!

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    This is a Educational fail of mass proportions.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant

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  • emilydoll
    11 years ago

    ... I had to think about it

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    • nobleserpent
      11 years ago

      Lol

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    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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