From phma@oltronics.net Thu Sep 07 12:18:21 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25457 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2000 19:18:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Sep 2000 19:18:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.25) by mta2 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2000 19:18:19 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id F14FC3C5DD; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:38:02 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] tongue or brain twister? Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:29:33 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <8p8dv2+eerm@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <8p8dv2+eerm@eGroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0009071238020B.00938@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting) wrote: >coi rodo poi kucli la jugban > >I've put a pretty good - and famous - tongue/brain twisting essay to >my sound sample page. It's done by the well-known linguist >Chao Yuen-ren for demonstration purpose. Have a look (graphic and >pinyin with translation) and listen to it (Mandarin and >Cantonese). >http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML pe'i ta bacryrapli gi'enai bacrynandu I think that's a battologism, not a tonguetwister. (mu'a bau le fraso: Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cent scies scient six cent six cyprès.) phma