Re: "Useful languages"

On 14 Feb, Roger Mills wrote:

> Mike Karapcik wrote:
> >| | Tagalong:
> >|
> >| Sure, can I come too? (Sorry, I HAD to do that.) You meant
> >| Tagalog I suppose.
> >|
> >
> >        Doh! Sorry! Mi bedauxras!
> >        That's what my (Microsoft) spell checker changed it to. I thought
> it
> >was wrong, but since I can't spell at all, I don't question The Almighty
> >Spellchecker.
>
> Somewhere there used to be a whole list of these, devised by linguistic
> students--
>
> "I think I'll go lie in the sun," she said in Basque.
> "Can I come too?" he asked in Tagalog  (requiring the same-- very common--
> misapprehension and mispronunciation).
> etc. etc.
>

    This type of verbal wordplay is sometimes known as
"Tom Swifties". There is a list of examples at the site:

http://www.dfki.de/~becker/swifties.html

This site also has links to other sites with lists of "swifties".

Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.

A word is an awesome thing.

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