Matt wrote:Two tongue-twisters from Bella Coola of the Salishan Family:
xɬp'χʷɬtɬpɬɬs kʷc' 'then he had in his possession a bunchberry plant'
cktskʷc 'he arrived'
I know I'm quoting an old post here but...
Hell, I almost suffocated when trying to pronounce them.
I tried to read those to my dad yesterday. It's insane. Also, how are you supposed to say those loudly? What if someone's far away from you, but you need to tell them right now that he had in his possession a bunchberry plant? It's impossible to shout it!
aardwolf wrote:
Maybe they can have non-phonemic epenthetic schwas.
Matt wrote:Two tongue-twisters from Bella Coola of the Salishan Family:
xɬp'χʷɬtɬpɬɬs kʷc' 'then he had in his possession a bunchberry plant'
cktskʷc 'he arrived'
I know I'm quoting an old post here but...
Hell, I almost suffocated when trying to pronounce them.
I tried to read those to my dad yesterday. It's insane. Also, how are you supposed to say those loudly? What if someone's far away from you, but you need to tell them right now that he had in his possession a bunchberry plant? It's impossible to shout it!
aardwolf wrote:
Maybe they can have non-phonemic epenthetic schwas.
Nope. As far as I've read they don't. Crazy, huh? Imagine having an argument in Bella Coola...it must sound magnificent!
Primordial Soup wrote:I believe Nuntar was referring not to this <s>,
Zukunfstsphilogie
but to this one:
Zukunfstsphilogie
Wow, I definitely skipped over that s
Since that one hasn't been sorted out yet -- you're both wrong . It's Zukunftsphilologie, and the OP was right: 'future' is Zukunft (not *Zukunfst), then you need a gap-s, and then comes Philologie, which is of course 'philology': Zukunft-s-philologie.
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I was wrong as well with *Ernstkts.
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I once found a sentence in Ayeri that'd fit into here very well, but I forgot it unfortunately.
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It makes me laugh when I try to say this because it's hilarious... I would never ever be able to speak this IRL.
I'm a big fan of these Montana Salish forms:
ččc'él'ščn 'wood tick' qe k'włp'łp'łšíłlt 'they marked these parcels off for us' p'l'p'l'čmím 'she's turning it over and over' čłkwkwtn'éw's 'a little fat belly' łəm'm'm'óc 'soft' (three glotalized /m/ in a row! awesoem!) ta kw esčłχp’χp’qní! 'your pants aren't buttoned!' ta skwlstnun 'I failed to send him."
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[quote="Radius Solis"]The other cow is stuck in the mud and keeps going HEE-HAW because it's having an identity crisis.[/quote]
Kalor wrote:Mach dich nich lächerlich
Don't be ridiculous.
Shouldn't that be nicht...? It probably is realized as [nIC] in some dialects, since I've heard pronounciations as deviant as [nIS] and [nId_0]
[quote="Jar Jar Binks"]Now, by making just a few small changes, we prettify the orthography for happier socialist tomorrow![/quote][quote="Xonen"]^ WHS. Except for the log thing and the Andean panpipers.[/quote]
Whimemsz wrote:Someone (I forget who now) and I listened to a recording of it online once. It sounds just as crazy as you'd expect. Enjoy: http://globalrecordings.net/program/C13810.
Qwynegold wrote: :o At times it's like Arabic with Finnish intonation, but mostly it's identical to Danish.
My God-you're right. We need to inform Edo Nyland right away!
Okay, listen. That joke was old 5 years ago. It's really old now. And it's REALLY old when used in situations where it doesn't even make any sense. You just saw "[language] identical to [language]" and replied with "Edo Nyland lol" and hoped people would think you were being clever. But you were wrong.
dhokarena56 wrote:My God-you're right. We need to inform Edo Nyland right away!
Whimemsz wrote:Okay, listen. That joke was old 5 years ago. It's really old now. And it's REALLY old when used in situations where it doesn't even make any sense. You just saw "[language] identical to [language]" and replied with "Edo Nyland lol" and hoped people would think you were being clever. But you were wrong.
Wycoval wrote:And besides, this is L&L Museum. Shhhhh! You're being distracting to people looking at the exhibits.
Maybe ZBB needs a "joke museum" where the oldest jokes go?
(Nnnmmm .... I guess not.)
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Here it is, all 58 letters long: diisobutylphenoxyethoxyethyldimethylbenzylammoniumchloride. [English]
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The longest word in Italian is traditionally precipitevolissimevolmente, which is a 26-letter-long adverb.
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[b]"While I was learning how to live, I was really learning how to die" -- Leonardo Da Vinci[/b]
From chapter 9 section 14 page 424 of J. Randolph Valentine's "Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar".
Gga-gchi-niisaakye-zaagji-ziinkiigmaane-bskiigdigwe-bmiboojgesahin
"I'll throw you down the hill so hard the snot will come out of your nose and your knees will buckle"
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TomHChappell wrote:From chapter 9 section 14 page 424 of J. Randolph Valentine's "Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar".
Gga-gchi-niisaakye-zaagji-ziinkiigmaane-bskiigdigwe-bmiboojgesahin
"I'll throw you down the hill so hard the snot will come out of our nose and your knees will buckle"
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to buy that, and I know now that it is. Thank you.
My Hungarian friend had me pronounce that the other day. I know Hungarian pronunciation, so it wasn't really a problem. I just pronounced it pretty slowly.
For some reason, I know Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch by heart, without really knowing Welsh. I can only form really basic sentences. I'm trying to learn it, but I never study it, so, yeah. Same goes for Hungarian. I'm too lazy at the moment.
. It's Zukunftsphilologie, and the OP was right: 'future' is Zukunft (not *Zukunfst), then you need a gap-s, and then comes Philologie, which is of course 'philology': Zukunft-s-philologie.
