Re: CHAT: silly names

Scott W. Hlad sikayal:

Well, my girlfriend was visiting over the last week so I'm in the middle
of the monster task of going through my 800 or so messages, since I did no
e-mail while she was here.  Here's my feeble contribution to the names
thread:

> There is no vowel sound in it. K->Rolled R->K
>
> Just as difficult as getting my last name correctly. You have to glide right
> from the H to the L. The mouth of an English speaker can't handle those
> consonants together.
Hrmm.  I have no trouble with this, just so long as you don't mind me
devoicing the [l].  Actually, I kind of run the two together so that the
/hl/ comes out as a devoiced [l].

>
> In Czech, there is a whole tongue twister without any vowels in it.
>
>
> Strc prz skrz krk.
In Romanian, I managed to construct a complete sentence without any
consonants:

Eu îi iau o oaie ei.

I'm not sure if it's grammatical, though--it means "I take her a sheep",
but it sounds weird to me.  Any other langs that can do this?


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_
Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5
Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil

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