Re: how come slavs have ridiculously consonant packed names?

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 02:53:26 GMT

Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> gAzor <gAzor@gazornia.org> wrote:
>
> >x-no-archive: yes
> >
> >Xenia wrote:
> >> Rex F. May wrote....
> >>
> >>>in article n058l0dlnqjv3h3uqaqlctrlbtmf30kruk@4ax.com, Harlan Messinger at
> >>>hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net wrote on 9/24/04 6:34 AM:
> >>>
> >>>>Do you laugh when you hear someone say "strength" or "wasps" or
> >>>>"scrounge" or "truths"?
> >>>
> >>>The best one I know of is 'glimpsed'.
> >>
> >>
> >> The best one I know is 'vzbzdnut' :))
> >>
> >
> >What about 'potrvdit'?
>
> Or "potrzebie"? (Used to appear in Mad Magazine. [Maybe it still does,
> but I wouldn't know.])

In 1987, a youngster brought a Mad to the office, and it hadn't changed
a bit since I'd last looked at one in 1968.

But I looked at one last week at Borders -- and it now takes
advertising!!

(And the movie parodies were of movies I'd never heard of.) (And I think
it's _much_ more political than it was -- maybe aiming at college rather
than JHS & HS kids?) 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net