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De:  Fred Duerr [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] <mailto:[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]>
Enviada em:  Sexta-feira, 19 de Fevereiro de 1999 05:47
Para:  [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Assunto:  Re: [CONCH-L] Correct pronunciation
 
Hi,  try this one
 
koko   as in the drink,
 
tsch   as in Tschaikovski,
 
ash    as in    aaah  sh, and
 
vilia    as in the more familiar cilia.
 
 
Should work,
 
Do Cvidania  (transliteration stinks)
Fred
 
 
 
Hi to all Conch-Lers,
 
After reading all this thread about correct pronunciation, I couldn't resist
to send you the following.
 
Eduardo
Brasilia, Brazil
 
 
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> WORLD NEWS:
>                CLINTON DEPLOYS VOWELS TO BOSNIA
>
>                Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to be First Recipients.
>
> Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton
> announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of
> Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will
> provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O and U, and
> is hoped to render countless Bosnian names more pronounceable. "For six
> years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm
> have been horribly butchered by millions around the world," Clinton said.
> "Today, the United States must finally stand up and say 'Enough'. It is
time the
> people of Bosnia finally had some vowels in their incomprehensible words.
The US
> is proud to lead the crusade in this noble endeavour."
>
> The deployment, dubbed Operation Vowel Storm by the State Department, is
> set for early next week, with the Adriatic port cities of Sjlbvdnzv and
> Grzny slated to be the first recipients. Two C-130 transport plans, each
> carrying over 500 24-count boxes of "E's" will fly from Andrews Air Force
> Base across the Atlantic and airdrop the letters over the cities. Citizens
> of Grzny and Sjlbvdnzv eagerly await the arrival of the vowels. "My God, I
> do not think we can last another day," Trszg Grzdnjkln, 44, said. "I have
> six children and none of them has a name that is understandable to me or
> to anyone else.
>
> Mr. Clinton, please send my poor, wretched family just one 'E'. Please."
> Said Sjlbvdnzv resident Grg Hmphrs, 67: "With just a few key letters, I
> could be George Humphries. This is my dream." The airdrop represents the
> largest deployment of any letter to a foreign country since l984.
> During the summer of that year, the US shipped 92,000 consonants to
> Ethiopia, providing cities like Quaouoaua, Eaoiiuae, and Aao with vital,
> life-giving supplies of L's, S's and T's. The consonant-relief effort
> failed, however, when vast quantities of the letters were intercepted and
> hoarded by violent, gun-toting warlords.
>
> I, for one, cannot begin to express my pride for such a devoted
> administration.
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>
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