Re: the i-language

> Date:         Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:03:24 -0400
> From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
> 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/.
There's a much longer one that's traditional in Danish:

        Tre små kinesere på Højbro plads
        stod og spillede på kontrabas.
        Så kom en betjent,
        spurgte hvad der var hændt.
        Tre små kinesere på Højbro plads.

To be sung on all nine vowels of the alphabet.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)