Re: Children's Shows and Conlangs
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 14, 1999, 8:08 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> nicole perrin wrote:
> > I was just babysitting, and the kid was watching an old cartoon called
> > David the Gnome, it used to be on Nickelodeon about 10 years ago. At
> > the end, I noticed that David says goodbye in his "gnome language." The
> > word is <slitzweitz>, pronounced /Slitsvaits/
>
> Sounds German-ish to me, especially with that spelling.
If it were German, it would be spelled <schlitzweitz>. Only <sp>
(and I think sometimes <st> depending on the dialect) represent
/Sp/ and /St/, respectively.
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