Re: Caucasian phonologies and orthographies

I was thinking of words like "sherpa", "tsampa" etc.
Are they Tibetan or Nepalese, I dunno exactly, but
anyway, "shtempa" would look nice among them: tsampa,
shtempa ! (roasted barley flour, I don't like you !)

True, it's also much alike "Stemper" (what is it ?)

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> I must agree on the last one - "shtempa" doesn't
> feel the slightest bit
> Asiatic to me, but very much European. Add a slight
> German accent, move the
> stress, and I'll be perfectly happy to spell it
> 'stemper'.
>
> (I do realize characterizing the sound of a word as
> Asiatic makes little
> sense, and as European not much more, but making
> sense have never been a
> design goal for my prejudices.)

=====
Philippe Caquant

"He thought he saw a Rattlesnake / That questioned him in Greek: / He looked
again, and found it was / The Middle of Next Week. / "The one thing I regret',
he said, / "Is that it cannot speak !' " (Lewis Carroll)

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