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#38507 08/15/01 04:18 PM
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(hoping this satisfies the wordies and the recipe-exchangers alike)

Faldage's phonetic musings elsewhere have inspired me to post a synæsthetic challenge: menus based on description of language - phonetics, structure, whatever puns well!

As a start:

main dish: chicken fricative
dessert: consonant clusters


#38508 08/15/01 04:27 PM
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For a cool treat: Froz-phrase.


#38509 08/15/01 04:31 PM
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In the salad: hearts of speech


#38510 08/15/01 05:02 PM
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Roasted pidgin covered with a phrasal sauce and cooked in portmanteau wine

Fresh fish and lobster from the Sapir Whorf


A note to our louder customers: At the dinner table, please refrain from chompskying

Written on the stall wall:
make the most of the all-you-can-eat buffet by beginning with a vowel movement


#38511 08/15/01 08:42 PM
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garnish du jour : parsely


#38512 08/16/01 02:25 AM
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fowl ala vowel...mmmmm!


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It doesn't quite fit here, but can anyone give me a good diuretic recipee?


#38514 08/18/01 03:40 PM
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Knife, fork, spoonerism...


#38515 08/18/01 03:44 PM
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>garnish du jour : parsely

sage... thyme


#38516 08/19/01 05:10 PM
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sage... thyme

That shows a lot of mental a-cumin, but I shall not attempt to curry favor.


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