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The Pink Panther

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Keep your knickers on mate. This is a tounge in cheek thread...

Easy cop-out when you get called on something and have no answer :o

I take it that you're an American...

Research just isn't your strongpoint is it? :D

Easy cop-out when you get called on something and have no answer. :D

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Calling a Canadian...an Amurican? Now them's fightin' words..... :o

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Calling a Canadian...an Amurican? Now them's fightin' words..... :o

I'd like to suggest that it was a subtle insult, but it was just an error.

He writes like an American... :D

Calling a Canadian...an Amurican? Now them's fightin' words..... :o

he might get a bummpp on his headd

Calling a Canadian...an Amurican? Now them's fightin' words..... :o

he might get a bummpp on his headd

Hav ya seen the heid on that boy, it's like an orange on a toothpick.

What is this thread abooooot, eh?

What is this thread abooooot, eh?

Er, I don't know either. It's become typical 'Bedlam'!

Calling a Canadian...an Amurican? Now them's fightin' words..... :D

I'd like to suggest that it was a subtle insult, but it was just an error.

He writes like an American... :D

I write like a Canadian. Sorry for going over your head like that. I'll dumb it down a bit. :o

How do you write in Welsh?

Sorry, there's not enough consonants on this keyboard.

That made me think back a good few years to when i was learning Japanese and the rules of consonants in that language and others. So i just did a quick wikipedia and found this quite interesting.

From wikipedia:-

Languages' phonotactics differ as to what consonant clusters they permit.

Many languages do not permit consonant clusters at all. Maori and Pirahã, for instance, don't permit any more than one consonant in a row before another vowel must appear. Japanese is almost as strict, but it allows clusters of consonant plus /j/ as in Tokyo, the name of the capital city. Across a syllable boundary, it also allows a cluster of a nasal consonant plus another consonant, as in Honshū (the name of the largest island) and tempura. A great many of the languages of the world are more restrictive than English in terms of consonant clusters: almost every Pacific island nation's language permits either one-term clusters or slight variations on a theme. Tahitian, Fijian, Samoan and Hawaiian are all of this sort. Standard Arabic does not permit initial consonant clusters, or more than two consecutive consonants in other positions. Finnish has initial consonant clusters natively only on South-Western dialects and on foreign loans, and only clusters of three inside the word are allowed. Most spoken languages and dialects, however, are more permissive.

At the other end of the scale, the Kartvelian languages of Georgia are almost unbelievable in terms of the consonant clusters they permit. Clusters are noted in Georgian of four, five or six terms are not unusual - for instance, brt'q'eli (flat), mc'vrtneli (trainer) and prčkvna (peeling) - and if grammatical affixes are used, it allows an eight-term cluster: gvbrdγvnis (he's plucking us). Consonants cannot appear as syllable nuclei in Georgian, so this syllable is analysed as CCCCCCCCVC. Some Slavic languages such as Slovak may manifest formidable numbers of consecutive consonants, such as in the words štvrť, žblnknutie, but the consonants /r/ and /l/ can form syllable nuclei in Slovak, and behave phonologically as vowels in this case. Another notable word is the Croatian word opskrbljivanje (supplying) (though note that, like nj, lj is a single consonant here:

Just to keep on topic :o where the Canadian consonant rules fits in, is anyone's guess :D

Interesting post mr bj!

Just trying to do my best to stay on topic Tiggy.........Bedlam style :o

Interesting post mr bj!

Just trying to do my best to stay on topic Tiggy.........Bedlam style :o

Another thread Bedlafied! Next!

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