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To: SquirrelKing

Here are two that even an Anglophone can say.

Ye Olde Frenche Alliterative Worde Playe #1:

Si six scies scient six cigares, six-cent-six scies scient six-cent-six cigares.

It means "If six saws saw six cigars, six-hundred six saws saw six-hundred six cigars", but the fun part is the pronunciation. Written out in English (or Spanish, "si"), what it sounds like is: SI SI SI SI SI SIGAR, SI SAHN SI SI SI SI SAHN SI SIGAR. The game is that si, six, scies and scient are all pronounced identically: "Si".

Ye Olde French Alliterative Worde Playe #2:

Ton tonton ton ton tonton. Ton tonton, ton tonton ton.

It means "Your uncle plays (lit. 'sounds') your toy. Your toy, your uncle sounds."

Ye Final Olde Frenche Worde Playe:

Everyone has heard Descartes' famous line:
"Je pense, donc je suis." - I think, therefore I am.

Never content to leave edifices of marble unmocked, the average Frechman can be heard saying, on a hot day:
"Je panse, donc je m'essui." - I sweat, therefore I wipe.

The trick is that it's pronounced the same, except for the "m'eh" before the "suis".


109 posted on 12/05/2006 10:24:19 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Aure entuluva.)
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To: Vicomte13
(In Pigdin Kaukau - say cow-cow - means food, or feed as well as to eat and to feed)

A Japanese farmer owned a horse and a Chinese neighbor had a cow.

The Japanese accused the Chinaman of stealing his horse's feed, and received the following reply:

"Horse no can kaukau cow kaukau. Cow kaukau cow kaukau."

112 posted on 12/05/2006 10:31:07 AM PST by null and void (To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. --Reba McEntire)
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To: Vicomte13
The trick is that it's pronounced the same, except for the "m'eh" before the "suis".

lol - I have told people in Spanish numerous timed that I am pragnant [embarrassed] or married [tired] after a long day's travel.

Great work above. Languages are fascinating things! My great-uncle, a JAG lawyer, had books and books on the history of language and the development of modern English. I did a couple of projects in college using his library and found it amazing how things are interconnected and nuanced [in a non-Kerry way] to the tongues we use today. I wish I had studied at an earlier age to become fluent in more than one!

113 posted on 12/05/2006 11:10:33 AM PST by SquirrelKing
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To: Vicomte13
Ton tonton ton ton tonton. Ton tonton, ton tonton ton.

It means "Your uncle plays (lit. 'sounds') your toy. Your toy, your uncle sounds."

And just what kind of funny uncles do they have in France?

126 posted on 12/05/2006 5:28:51 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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