Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words

 --- Josh Brandt-Young skrzypszy:

> > I would have to check that. There is only one word I can think of right
> > now: "droz.dz.e"
> > Would geminates count as well? In that case we get: "ssak" (mammal), "ww-"
> > (I can't think of a concrete example right now, but I know they exist).
> > These are pronounced separately. Same thing with the name "Anna".
>
> Ooh! Ooh! There's "jez.dz.e,"...oh, and speaking of weirdness, I ran into a
> word in a book last weekend that began with "dz.dz." but I can't remember
> what it was or what it meant. Jan?
Yes indeed! I'm at home now, happily with my dictionaries. I found:
"dz.dz.ysty" (rainy) and "dz.dz.owiec" (rainworm).
Similarly: "czczy" (empty, futile), "czczenie" (adoration). Weird babies.

And I found another one, a good candidate to beat Georgian:
"z'dz'b£o" (stalk, halm, blade).

And a few geminates: "wwalic'", "wwies'c'", "wwiez'c'", "wwindowac'",
"wwodzic'", "wwóz"..

Strange enough, nothing starting with "zz" (strange because "z" is a common
prefix for verbs, just like "w" that produces the examples I gave above). We
have "zziajany", "zzie,bna,c'", but here the second "z" is actually /z'/, so
that doesn't count.

> Czesc,
>     Josh
Wszystkiego dobrego,
Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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