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#32610 06/19/01 10:34 AM
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I have always loved the pleasant - ah, sorry the pheasant plucker tease. Now even more so, having noticed an etymological tidbit that traces the word pheasant to the river Phasis - seems like an emphatic enough extra reason to me [but I'm mad anyway, take no notice e]


#32611 06/19/01 11:23 AM
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Do you mean:
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son and I'm only plucking pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes?

How about:
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit.

but this is sliding quickly into the gutter...


#32612 06/19/01 01:16 PM
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Se l'arcivescovo di Costantinopoli si disarcivescovisconstantinopolizzasse tu ti disarcivescoviscostantinopolizzeresti come si è disarcivescoviscostantinopolizzato l' arcivescovo di Costantinopoli?

If the archbishop of Costantinople would like to un-archbishop-of-constantinopolize himself, would you un-archbishop-of-constantinopolize yourself, in the same way in which the archbishop of Costantinople un-archbishop-of-constantinopolized himself?



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#32614 06/19/01 02:44 PM
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How funny, Emanuela! We have a very similar tongue-twister in Spanish!

"El arzobispo de Constantinopla, se quiere desarzobispoconstantinopolizar. El desarzobispoconstantinopolizador que lo desarzobispoconstantinopolizare, buen desarzobispoconstantinopolizador sera"

Something like "The archbishop of Constantinople wants to de-archbishop-of-constantinopolize himself. The de-archbishop-of-constantinopolizer to de-archbishop-of-constantinopolize him, will be a good de-archbishop-of-constantinopolizer"


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