Re: how come slavs have ridiculously consonant packed names?

From: gAzor (gAzor_at_gazornia.org)
Date: 09/25/04

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    Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:32:08 GMT

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    Harlan Messinger wrote:
    > gAzor <gAzor@gazornia.org> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>x-no-archive: yes
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    >>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.])

    '-rz-' in 'potrzeba' is just another digraph, pronounced like 'zh' or 'sh'
    the same way as the Czech 'z-hacek', so spotken '-trz-' is just
    a cluster of two consonants, pronounced '-tsh-' (like in 'potsherd' or 'potshot')
    in a word containing 4 consonants and 3 vowels, a real non-contestant.
    'Chrz±szcz' would be much more difficult
    -trvd-, on the other hand is a cluster of four consonants, so 'tvrdit' has
    5 consonants among its 6 sounds. 'Tvrdy' has the same cluster in a 5 letter word,
    while 'chrz±szcz' also has 4 in 5, because there are 4 digraphs in this word.
    Actually it contains only two clusters of 2 consonants, separated by a vowel.

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