Re: Conlang name in spam subject? "burzeon staoch"

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:53:22 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> The other day  I got a spam with the subject line
>> "burzeon staoch" I thought this would be an excellent
>> name of a conlang, or a phrase for something in a
>> conlang (presumably 'big c*ck', wrt the spam context.)
>>
>> Come to think of it it looks like Maghean,
>> save for the _z_!
>
> The style is indeed reminicent of Meghean's.
>
> But there's a couple more problems than that "z"; no Meghean word begins
> with
> _st-_* and _ao_ should, in the regularized spelling I'm employing, only
> be
> found world-finally.
[snip]

> But more likely it's the result of said scribe trying to transcribe a
> foreign
> phrase. The pronouncing he or she was aiming for was then most likely
> something like [burZon stawx] --
Hm, perhaps a misspelling for _burgheon stouch_ or _...stooch?

Come to think of it _burzen stahoc_ or _...stahox_
might be Sohlob for 'big d*ng'.

/BP 8^)
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