Re: the i-language
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 5, 2000, 20:03 |
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, daniel andreasson 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/.
In English there is a children's song whose only lyric is "I like to
eat apples and bananas". On repetition, all non-schwa vowels are
replaced with long "a" /Ei/. The next repetition replaces them all with
long "e" /i/, and so on through long "i" /Ai/, long "o" /ow/ ~ /@w/,
and long "u", normally /ju/ but in this case simply /u/.
> Thee riseelt is finny,
Indeed.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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