Re: HUMOUR (lingua vulgaris) Re: .com/religion

In a message dated 9/24/01 7:47:33 AM, taliesin@NUTS.EDU writes:

<< > 29.) Shali Speakers: Ha, ha, ha!  Everybody come and play in the shit!
It's

> wonderful!  Oh, happy, happy day!

Ooh! Tell us all about the Shali speakers (and their language). >>

    I think that, by now, I have to consider the Shali language a failure.
Or, no, I won't say that.  It's on the back burner--the one way in the back
that's broken and takes three hours to heat soup.  It was my attempt at a
totally isolating language, and since I know none, it came out odd.  But what
really made it difficult was the fact that I only included the sounds I
liked, and so there were no nasals, five vowels, and then the following
consonants:

l, f, v, t, d, s, z, S, Z, tS, dZ, j, w, h

    Look especially at the eight in the middle.  When I actually tried to
pronounce this language it was like saying, "Sally Zelshin sells shiny
seashells sitting by the sunny, showy seashore".  I actually recorded three
sentences of it, along with all my other languages at the time.  Each
language took me about five minutes; Shali took me a half an hour.

-David