Re: Padraic's numbers (fi: JG's list of conlangs)

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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Padraic's numbers (fi: JG's list of conlangs)


> Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
>
> > Interesting. No, never seen it before. Who are these Giants of Kemrese
legend?
> > I don't think I have ever read about them.
> > How come they speak a descendant of Old English (or perhaps Old
Frisian?)
>
> Well, Giants are traditionally stupid, and that's the Welsh view of the
> English (broadly considered), so it's reasonable.  If the English
> *here* can count their sheep (real sheep, not the kind you count when
> you have insomnia) in slightly garbled Welsh ("Yan, tyan, tethera,
methera,
> pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick" is the version I'm most
  As far as I'm aware, that's considered to be the last remnant of Cumbrian.