Re: CHAT: Cowan again (was: jokes (was: Fdnyldjikyl Inglyx))

At 10:54 -0500 15.12.1999, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
>
>> In the worst cases I just blurt out
>> some insult in Icelandic.  Icelandic isn't part of my mix -- "genetically"
>> speaking, but it tends to be effective in terms of making them shut up.
>
>Is that because they understand it, or because they don't understand it,
>or both?
Kinda both.  Just outside the verge of understandable for most Swedes.

>> (Hey, John, did you know that "kaun" is the name of the K rune in Old
>>Norse?)
>
>Way to go.  I guess if I need to start writing messages to be left on the
>underside of rocks on the tops of exposed hills, I'll use a K-rune to sign
>them.
"Is that an abbreviation?" "No, it's an ideogram!" :-)




/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson  <bpj@...> <melroch@...>
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