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

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 ...

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