Re: OT: Arapaho language writeup in NY Times

Mesmells a good translation exercise....

Josh

On 10/17/08, Peter Collier <petecollier@...> wrote:
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> From: "Matthew Turnbull" <ave.jor@...>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 8:13 PM
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Subject: Re: OT: Arapaho language writeup in NY Times
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>> hold a chicken . . . ummm, what?
>
> I was a reference to Spitting Image's "Chicken Song" - must be a good 20/25
> years ago now, I guess (bleedin' Nora, now I feel old!).
>
>
> Hold a chicken in the air
> Stick a deckchair up your nose
> Buy a jumbo jet
> And then bury all your clothes
> Paint your left knee green
> Then extract your wisdom teeth
> Form a string quartet
> And pretend your name is Keith
>
> Skin yourself alive
> Learn to speak Arapahoe
> Climb inside a dog
> And behead an Eskimo
> Eat a Renault Four
> Wear salami in your ears
> Casserole your gran
> Disembowel yourself with spears

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