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

In a message dated 9/26/01 11:26:47 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< p, b, t, d, b, g, f, v, T, D, s, z, S, Z, ts, dz, tS, dZ, r, l, m, n

Compared to Shali, Tairezazh lacks /w, j, h/, but adds /p, b, k, g, r, m,
n/. >>

    Actually, I screwed up.  I also have r, T and D.  No other stops, though,
and no nasals, which makes transcription very funny.  Oddly enough, my name
remains "David" [devId], but my girlfriend's name, "Megan", comes out
something like, [dedZId]?  I don't even know how I'd transcribe that.  Oh,
and I love your sentence!  Let me see if I can dig up one from Shali...  Ah
yes, here's an interesting one.  A sort of phrase of theirs is "Happiness
shines brighter than the brightest sun", which comes out as:

siZej hi lIs leS Zi Sits SEl zEd leS Zi.

    The first time I tried to say this I just about died laughing at how
ridiculous it sounded.  I couldn't make it sound like a real language; I
could just stop and pronounce each word.  It was awful!  I finally got it out
okay, though I don't know how, because I can't do it now.  You'd think that
sounds made in the same place of articulation that occur next to each other
would be easier to pronounce; why is it the opposite?

-David