Re: the i-language

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:56:48 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:

>At 19:36 05/07/00 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hello y'all/[jau]/you guys/etc.
>>
>>In Swedish (and probably most European languages) there is a
>>game called _i-språket_ or rather _i-sprikit_ 'the i-language',
>>when you change all the vowels to /i/. Thee riseelt is finny,
>>bit yee still indeersteend ivrything thit is sid.
>>
>
>We have it in French too, but it's not considered a game. It's the way
>French people caricature French-speaking Arabs, who are supposed to change
>all the vowels to /i/.
I heard a song on the radio once that went something like "All I want is a
proper cup of coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot", and so on (sung
a little bit faster each time). Anyway, in one verse, which was supposed to
have been an imitation of a French speaker, all the stressed vowels were
pronounced alike. So it went something like "Ell eh went es a prepper kep
of keffee, med en a prepper kepper keffee pet...." (if you can imagine this
in a fake French accent.)

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