On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:01:43PM +0100, Richard Smedley wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:27, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0100, Pigeon said: > > > > is the reason why he took over mmmhhhhship of a penguin in a British > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > Sorry, totally baffled here. Could you elucidate please? > > > > It's probably Welsh. No, wait, there's a vowel. > > Harumph. Actually we have _7_ vowels in > Welsh :^) > > a e i o u w y And station announcers announcing trains to Llandudno [Junction] are not only incapable of pronouncing 'll', but don't know that 'u' sounds like English 'i'. I wish they Did Know that... The 'u' sound is given by 'y', so they are actually announcing trains to "Landydno". But 'y' in the last syllable (where NumSyllables > 1) is 'ee'... Then there's all the fun with mutations... Tolkien's Elvish language Sindarin is based on Welsh. Another language that goes mad with vowels is Finnish - on which Tolkien's other Elvish language Quenya is based. Presumably it is this language on which the Elves have standardised for documenting their Linux systems. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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