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Re: [ARSCLIST] Looking for a word
Larry Friedman wrote:
> Scratching my head here wondering why you would ever need to pronounce that
> on the air. Reading train schedules?
Something along the lines of "because it was there". And it occurs in a song
lyric (a 5 pound bag of wet mice goes out to anyone who can tell us which
one..hint, it's by Stephen Sondheim).
dl
>
>
> I once knew a woman from Wales who was one of the relatively few who had
> been brought up monolingually on Welsh. She couldn't understand why people
> had such problems pronouncing it. She said it was merely a string of words
> all said together, then pronounced it for me. My main thought then was how
> to wipe the spittle off my face without being rude.
>
> -L
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of David Lennick
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:05 PM
> > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Looking for a word
> >
> > Larry Friedman wrote:
> >
> > > Nah, too short! You need something shorter and more to the point, like
> > > "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".
> >
> > I once actually learned how to pronounce that..long enough to get it right
> on
> > the air.
> >
> > dl
> >
> > > I think we'd better stop this before someone without a sense of humor
> starts
> > > complaining. :)
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> > > [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx]
> > > > On Behalf Of David Breneman
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:23 PM
> > > > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Looking for a word
> > > >
> > > > --- Larry Friedman <disquod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > How about "Etc."?!
> > > > >
> > > > > :)
> > > >
> > > > Or something with the word "granola" in it. :-)
> > > >
> > > > Isn't there a term epistemological existentialism?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > David Breneman david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
> > > >
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