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

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 15:19
This reminds me of Yosemite Sam's famous euphemism
rendered "frknfrakn".
Clint


--- Peter Clark <pc451@...> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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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