SC - FW: Another joke

[Groulx, Michelle]

This got a chuckle out of me. If your even remotely familiar with Welsh
you'll know what it means.

Micaylah
(Michelle)


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> From: 	durock[SMTP:durock at interlinks.net]
> Reply To: 	ealdormere-l at informer1.CIS.McMaster.CA
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 11, 1998 1:47 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Another joke
> 
> Here's one for the celtic among you.
> 
> ~Ivanova~
> MKA Laurie Woodward
> durock at interlinks.net
> 
> Yesterday morning, a couple of friends and I were sitting around at the
> Northern Renaissance Faire when the discussion turned to languages -- most
> notably Old English, Irish Gaelic and, inevitably, Welsh.  It is
> quite interesting discussing these in a frame of mind meant to emulate
> that of the latter 1500s.
> 
> Now, Welsh is a most peculiar language in that it appears to have words
> which turn out to look more like acronyms, or the linguistic equivalent of
> line noise.  If you've ever seen Welsh written out, you know what I
> mean -- each word is typically a bunch of consonants with a few vowels
> sprinkled here and there for flavor, and is in no way connected with a
> word that sounds like its Anglo-Latin equivalent.  Take, for example, the
> word "Wales" -- the name of their own country.  They spell it "CYMRU".
> Makes perfect sense, right?  
> 
> Yeah, thought so.  It looks more like an acronym for "Celtic Youth
> Mythical Research Union", or something
> like that.  And that's just one of the short words (ask someone who is a
> bit more familiar with Welsh to come up with a longer one -- they can
> achieve twenty or more letters in one word, and you're lucky if  there's
> more than two vowels in the bunch).
> 
> Well, we finally figured out what must have happened. Ages ago, long
> before the latter 1500s, there must have been a large exodus from Wales
> which eventually settled in what is now called Hawaii....and they took all
> the vowels with them when they left.
> 
> 
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