Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. ...
| From: | Paul Bennett <pbennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 18:56 |
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All this talk about Georgian is very worrying, the Wewnet may have
to up sticks and relocate their homeland. Otherwise, I'll have redo
the one thing that's been constant throughtout my otherwise hectic
changes - their simple, regular phonology. Whatever happens, I'll
avoid a labio-abdominal as much as I'd avoid an apico-nasal!
On 21 Jun 99, at 23:19, Ed Heil wrote:
> It seems that whenever I am reading up on phonology or phonetics, I
> can count on references to the most obscene and extreme sounds as
> elements of the Georgian tongue.
>
> I would not be a bit surprised to discover that Georgian includes a
> "labio-tummy trill," made by pressing one's face against the
> interlocutor's belly and blowing a raspberry.
>