Re: OT: Musical languistics

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> >  I used to have an assistant from Bulgaria whos
> mother
> > was in such a choir back in Bulgaria.  She (my
> > assistant) was one interesting lady to talk to on
> any
> > number of subjects.  She was also the one who
> taught
> > me a Bulgarian tongue twister!
>
> So what is it already?
Oh, heavens to Murgatroid, you think I learned how to
transliterate Bulgarian?  Let's see.  In the official
Ijustmadeitup transliteration scheme it would be . . .

chichkuvite chervenotikvenechkovcheta
/tSItSkuvite tSE4vEnotIkvEnetSkovtSet@/

IIRC it was only two words and means something like
"uncle's red-pumpkins".

Adam the collector of useless baubles