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#122092 02/03/04 10:53 PM
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In Siberia a linguist from Swarthmore has discovered some 35-40 speakers of this previously-thought-extinct language. I can't find anything else on it except this audio interview from NPR (scroll down):

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=3-Feb-2004


#122093 02/04/04 01:28 AM
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cool!
but from your subject I thought this was going to be about birth order...



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#122094 02/04/04 04:50 AM
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"Middle Chylum" is that part of a Hookah which is neither at the set-fire-to end nor the suck-on end but rather somewhere in between.



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my, Father Steve, what a fount of wisdom on drugs you are...


#122096 02/04/04 12:21 PM
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Nah, Middle Chylum is a little Cotswold village tucked into the hillside below Chylum Superior and quarter of a mile up the slope from Nether Chylum. The Chylums are a couple of miles from that well-known market town, Dunny-on-the-Wold. Which is where this occurred:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/3457965.stm




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"It doesn't appear to be vandalism or terrorism, it does appear to have been a technical problem."

Just a flash in the pan, then.


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One rather wonders what would have become of anybody actually on the pan when it flashed ...


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Talk about being caught with their pants down...


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I'm just so glad that this thread has stayed on the interesting subject of an obscure language, once thought extinct, rather than devolving into irrelevant and even scatological subjects, as is so often the fate with such threads on lesser boards.


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Faldage is right. My bad. Awaiting the assignment of penance here.

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