Re: tongue twisters

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:20:30 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:30:10AM -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
>> Perhaps you have not tongue twisters in a narrow sense but just sentences
>> that are particularly difficult to pronounce, e.g. the following in my
>> natlang:
>
>Huh.  There is a word |z| in your 'lect of German?  I thought vowelless words
>were a peculiarity of Slavic and Semitic languages.
There's also |d| [t], a definite article.

These are the only vowelless words (well, [ts] is actually three different
words, either article |ds|, preposition |z| 'to' or modificator of
adjectives |z| 'too'). There are other words that often lose their vowel,
like English _is_.

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust