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alright who the fuck voted for S as best letter

okay so here's the thing. S is clearly the best letter. it is the most powerful letter:

1. it somehow surpassed A in alphabetical grade markings
2. if you put an S on the end of most words it goes from just one thing to a potentially infinite amount of the same thing. like holy fuck, all that from one letter

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A few other points worth making here:

Vowels in general are very powerful. That said, E is the fucking rattata of letters. We all know this.
If E is the rattata of letters, Q is the magikarp. Effectively useless on its own and when people see it unaccompanied in the wild they're like "what the fuck is this doing here."

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on July 16, 2017, 12:46:53 PM
alright who the fuck voted for S as best letter

i'm sorry that your opinions on letters are bad

Quote from: ï¼°ï½�ï½�ï½"ｉｃｌï½...ï¼� on July 16, 2017, 12:49:16 PM

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on July 16, 2017, 12:46:53 PM
alright who the fuck voted for S as best letter

i'm sorry that your opinions on letters are bad

nah its cool you have some good points

The only two letters that matter are F and U.

X is cool too.

I must ask who voted for Q though. This is a Bad thing you've done.

M is the best

if you didnt have q you'd have to combine k and w for some words and that is an ugly combination of letters

Quote from: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on July 16, 2017, 05:05:56 PM
if you didnt have q you'd have to combine k and w for some words and that is an ugly combination of letters

You could literally replace Q with K or C with no other changes and it'd be fine. Q sucks.

kuick wow that looks like a real nice and attractive word

quck

qummies

C is useless outside of ch as well.

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on July 16, 2017, 05:35:22 PM
C is useless outside of ch as well.

by this criteria, x is also useless

it could very well be replaced by eks in 99% of cases

and xylophone is pronounced zylophone anyway

and imo the only thing wrong with w is its awful name

to match the alphabetical pronunciations of the other consonants, it should be called 'we' or 'way' or 'ew' or something like that

it doesn't even look like a doubled u

j is also arguably redundant

jay -> dzhay

X S A R and V are all the best letters

Quote from: Majorana's Mask on July 16, 2017, 05:55:50 PM
and imo the only thing wrong with w is its awful name

to match the alphabetical pronunciations of the other consonants, it should be called 'we' or 'way' or 'ew' or something like that

it doesn't even look like a doubled u

in other languages it is actually called a double v hocuspocus;

Quote from: SloppyJimbo on July 16, 2017, 12:46:53 PM
alright who the fuck voted for S as best letter

What else would you put in S-tier?

Quote from: YPargh on July 16, 2017, 06:46:04 PM
X S A R and V are all the best letters

Quote from: Majorana's Mask on July 16, 2017, 05:55:50 PM
and imo the only thing wrong with w is its awful name

to match the alphabetical pronunciations of the other consonants, it should be called 'we' or 'way' or 'ew' or something like that

it doesn't even look like a doubled u

in other languages it is actually called a double v hocuspocus;

that's true, spanish gets it right in that regard

but spanish and other alphabets have their own host of problems, generally much worse than those found in the english alphabet myface;

[spoiler]

but maybe i'm a little biased as an english speaker lol[/spoiler]

 apple bananas coconuts dolphins elephants fargo gonorrhea helix ice jig kilometre Elohim monkey nuggets opera piano quark RTS Steve telephone ulysses vulva wow xylphone ying zhuang

i'm pretty sure the name Double-U comes from the fact that the actual letter U once looked like the modern-day V, and then they created W, and THEN they decided to make U look like how it is now and THEN the modern-day V was introduced.

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Quote from: ƕɾο on July 17, 2017, 09:47:13 PM
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i'm sorry hiro what are you doing. you are ranking the letters based on aesthetics. i don't even know where to start on how fucking wrong of you this is.

why? we're rating the fucking alphabet, this isn't based on anything, he didn't say in terms of their contributions to language or social connotations, just pure personal preference, and my opinions on letters are based on how they look as well as how they sound to a lesser degree
also why did you even have to quote my big-ass post lol

in fact if we're going purely on sound my top 5 are still (in no particular order) r, y, k, a,  and s, which are my top 5 in capital and in my top 10 in lowercase

1. when you speak, when you say the letters, do you see them? you do not

[spoiler=2. one word]FONTS

how can you even accurately rank aesthetics when there isn't really a single uniform way to write any one single letter? that's ridiculous and you're being ridiculous[/spoiler]

I based my tier list on sound, influence, practicality, and assertion of dominance and I kind of expected everyone else to do the same.

Quote from: Ｐｏｐｓｉｃｌｅ！ on July 18, 2017, 12:43:59 AM
1. when you speak, when you say the letters, do you see them? you do not

[spoiler=2. one word]FONTS

how can you even accurately rank aesthetics when there isn't really a single uniform way to write any one single letter? that's ridiculous and you're being ridiculous[/spoiler]

1, when i say a letter, yes I see it in my head. I associate sounds with shapes, and numbers with colors.
2. those are typefaces bro, and I'm talking about the general shapes, obviously they can be drawn differently but it still has to follow the basic shape & structure for legibility's sake. i even took under consideration differences between different ways a lowercase a can be drawn, or lowercase l vs capital I (partly why I rated them lowly as they are too similar)

we're talking about letters, which are written. letters are a visual creation, and are an entirely different part of language than spoken word. (in fact many languages have no written system or alphabet) it would make sense for me to look at them from a visual standpoint.

we can both rank them on our own personal criteria though
you're a musician so it would make sense for you to emphasize sound while i ( being hiro) would emphasize visuals

Man I thought some of my arguments were silly  n_u

I voted D cuz its both in my name and ladies like it ayyy

Quote from: ï¼°ï½�ï½�ï½"ｉｃｌï½...ï¼� on July 18, 2017, 12:44:52 AM
I based my tier list on sound, influence, practicality, and assertion of dominance and I kind of expected everyone else to do the same.

you fucking nazi

Popsi the Nazi has a nice ring to it

Quote from: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on July 18, 2017, 03:43:49 PM

Quote from: Ｐｏｐｓｉｃｌｅ！ on July 18, 2017, 12:44:52 AM
I based my tier list on sound, influence, practicality, and assertion of dominance and I kind of expected everyone else to do the same.

you fucking nazi

yeah i'm gonna round up kill all the slack-jawed hicks what are you gonna do

dude same