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[–] 78 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Elemenopee is the undisputed high point.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Call me crazy but LMNOP stands on the shoulders of HiJK. Give my boy at least a B

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Hard disagree on WXYZ. C tier. Maybe B tier at best.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I have bad news on how it's taught now

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    The "updated" alphabet song need not be mentioned

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Jeez, they can't make the AI sound human, so now they're trying to make the kids sound like AI.

    The awkward rests between Q and W are terrible.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, you’re not saying this channel is AI are you?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not really, I know nothing about the channel. It's just the songs rhythm lacks any real variance and emotion, something that AI could replicate.

    If they teach kids that's how to sing/talk, then the AI voices will suddenly sound "human".

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The scuttlebutt is that the LMNOP section is hard for kids to learn, especially ESL kids. Slowing down that section helps them distinguish between each letter. Personally I was taught each letter individually alongside the song. Even as a hearing impaired individual I never really had an issue with that part. I am not a child educator though, so maybe there's more research backing this up than one 30 year old anecdote.

    Here is patient zero according to some light googling. That song came out 16 years ago, looong before we knew how goofy AI sounded.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Twinkle, twinkle little star

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I read about somebody naming their kid Abcde, claiming it was pronounced like 'ab city'... meanwhile, Elemenope and Kiuares were right there.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    I like wxyz in french. I took french like 30 years ago but the alphabet was sticky and still gets lodged in my brain sometimes due to the last bit.

    (This is phonetics/pronunciation, ofc, same melody)

    Doobluh-vay (double v), eeks (x, but you saw a mouse), eegrek (????), zed (zed sounds much cooler than zee, which ironically sounds more French to me)

    Hands down the best part of the French alphabet.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I'm Italian and the letters sounds similar to French: doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta. But the standard Italian alphabet only has 21 letters, and w, x and y are not part of the alphabet (together with j and k).

    By the way, the name of "y" in French means "greek i"

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Elemeno Peeeee

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Had a kid recently.... They changed the song so LMNOP isn't so rapid fire for new babies

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I will dare to mention the new version; LMNOP is knocked down a peg because those bastards have confused young children for centuries! The new king is XYZ, especially with that non-letter &.

    Forget that Mozart played the original melody in the Twelve Variations!

    That said, shout out to the rollercoaster one Simple Songs did. I am partial to their ABCDEFGH.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm trying to picture how this sounds. If it is "zed", does it just not rhyme with T-U-V ?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Are you, Just Kidding about that C tier?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    sure, but move "WXYZ" up if you pronounce it "zed" but drop it down 3 for "zee".

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    QRSTUV being ranked so low is purely a skill/commitment issue. You've gotta hit that shit with gusto, stick your chest out and enunciate every letter like it's Les Mis or a military march. KYOO! ARRRR! ESSSSSS! TEEEEEEYOOOOOUVEEEE.

    It's one of your few opportunities to hit a nice, long, steady stride.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    LMNOP feels like you're going down a slide.

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    Wow, another β€œee” sound purist huh?

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    Imagine not putting all of RSTLNE in S tier, SMH

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure elemenopee is universally S-tier in all languages.

    Source: Wordologist, Ph.D.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I'm actually curious how it's sung in Spanish, they have a few extra letters in the critical range.

    l, ll, m, n, Γ±, o, p

    I took Spanish in highschool but that was a long time ago. I vaguely recall learning a weird version of the alphabet song that starts with A, B, C, CH, D, E, F as the first grouping, but I can't recall how it went past that.

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