Re: Georgian hatred of vowels was Re: making up words

This reminds me of Yosemite Sam's famous euphemism
rendered "frknfrakn".
Clint


--- Peter Clark <pc451@...> wrote:
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> On Wednesday 20 March 2002 02:50 am, Christophe
> Grandsire wrote:
> > En réponse à Peter Clark <pc451@...>:
> > >         (I'm not quite as bad as, say, Georgian,
> however. Georgian is
> > > downright
> > > genocidal with its vowels. I mean, what language
> could be so cruel as
> > > to
> > > produce a word like "gvprckvnis"? I suppose the
> "v"s and "r"s are
> > > syllabic,
> > > but still...)
> >
> > You suppose wrong! I've heard some recordings of a
> Georgian pronouncing
> > various words and sentences in Georgian, including
> this famous word, and
> > his pronunciation is quite clear: all consonants
> are pronounced, but none
> > is syllabic. It really sounds like a single
> syllable with only one peak at
> > the 'i'.
>

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