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

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, September 27, 2001, 19:23
David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 9/27/01 10:07:19 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > ><< E' stelza dins sashtstinzh tshist suzdel shas, tse sha senar tsai >toushes - >ta sul shar a thainethes, lir ta srát shu shan seidh ast its, tse sha zol >lis. > >> > > Oh, my God! That's ten-thousand times more difficult! I can't seem >to >get past the fourth word... Let me try again. [Trying.] Success! I can >do >it now, but it still doesn't sound like languages, just like individual >utterances strung together... You mind if I hang to this as an example?
You can use it as much as you like, but I noticed another error - "because" shouldn't be _lir_ like above (which rather means "because of that", refering to something already said), but rather _lai_. So, with that corrected: E' stelza dins sashtstinzh tshist suzdel shas, tse sha senar tsai toushes - ta sul shar a thainethes, lai ta srát shu shan seidh ast its, tse sha zol lis. It may perhaps help you to know that the fourth word breaks up like _sasht-stinzh_ "red-hairy", so there should be a kind of sort-of pause in the middle. I think the technical term is "junction". Andreas PS It was a bit scary to see how easy it was to form a quite long sentence with all consonants in the dental-to-postalveolar range. Now, a real challenge 'd be to make a comparable sentence without any dentaloid consonants. Lemme see - no personal pronouns, no words in the accusative or dative, no plurals - well, nigh no inflections at all. Genitive case, past tense and negative comparative is about what one could use. _A mév ai fe mek?_ "Is this day yellow?" is about what I can think of. PPS With my Swedish accent, all the consonants of the word "dental" are indeed dental ... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp