Re: German language game [was: Newbie Delurking ...]

At 10:00 AM -0500 11/16/01, Muke Tever wrote:
>From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
>>  Dirk wrote:
>>  > >flausch-hausch-le-fausch ig-hig-le-fig e-he-le-fe blau-hau-le-fau
>>  > >e-he-le-fe Aff-haff-le-faff en-hen-le-fen.
>>  >
>>  > Hmmm. Is "flau-hau-le-fau schi-hi-le-fi ge-he-le-fe ... A-ha-le-fa
>>  > fen-hen-le-fen" also possible?
>>
>>  I think it is.  I did it without thinking.  Now that you say it, your
>>  version seems more reasonable.  However, there must be a reason for me
>>  not splitting at syllable breaks.
>
>Probably because the morpheme breaks feel more relevant?
I'm curious about this as well. I've been doing a little bit of
reading in Germanic prosody: an article on the Norwegian
stress-quantity interdependence, and an article on the orthography of
the Ormulum -- an Early Middle English text (the author contends that
the orthography can be understood from the vantage point of a
particular theory of prosody).

>Like, in English it'd be easier to say "fuzz-huzz-le-fuzz y-hy-le-fy" than
>"fuh-huh-le-fuh zy-hy-le-fy", and "fuz-huz-le-fuz zy-hy-le-fy" is cheating.
>
>(But syllable breaks in English are an anomaly, I don't know if it's as bad in
>German...)
Anomalous only under a particular set of assumptions ...

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                              Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead;
therefore we must learn both arts."            - Thomas Carlyle