Wither million blither tongues mounting bristling guilt frames.

[reddragdiva]

Linguistic *SPORK* moment, from Georgian language:

The language contains some formidable consonant clusters, as may be seen in words like gvprtskvni ("You peel us") and mtsvrtneli ("trainer").

And you thought Srpski was bad. (And German is left in the dust.) Georgian also has its own alphabet, which mitigates the horror slightly for those of us who use a Latin-alphabet language that has vowels and stuff.

The consonant cluster article puts it in a manner that would normally read as not entirely NPOV, but in this case I think it's entirely justified:

At the other end of the scale, the Kartvelian languages of Georgia are almost unbelievable in terms of the consonant clusters they permit ... Consonants cannot appear as syllable nuclei in Georgian, so this syllable is analysed as CCCCCCCCVC.

Imagine cunnilingus from a Georgian. They could probably deal cards with their tongues. They could probably cheat at cards with their tongues.

Comments

[vatine]

Heh. There's a carefully constyructed swedish word (meaning "being laughing in an Irkustkian manner") that manages a rather impressive sequence of individually pronounced consonants. That word is Irkusktsktskrattande for a stunning 9 pronounced consonants.

[reddragdiva]

That's because Swedes are perverted freaks. (I know Finnish is likely worse.)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

*SPORK*

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

The Finns stole all the Slavs' vowels, remember.

[vatine]

Yeah, I should amend the Uncyclopedia page on IKEA, since it misses IKEA's secret mission of preparing the world for SWEDISH WORLD DOMINANCE!!elvene!

As a complete aside, did you look at my "blogging defined" post as per yesterday?

[vatine]

"Do not say that word unless you are a trained tounge-twister".

It gets easier after about half a pint and then it goes more difficult as pintage increases. The "tsksktskr" patr is, essentially, pronounced as written and "tsksk" is actually the hardest part.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Alas Georgian isn't slavic.

When I was at college (*yawn*) we learnt that Georgian had the best consonant clusters ever.

I think Georgian also has cool shit like ejectives too.

[reddragdiva]

No, it isn't. It's a few thousand years old and it's one of a bunch of languages from that area that don't hook into any other known languages. Gosh!

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

And it has ejectives ("spat" consonants) - woot!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejective

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

I tried to learn Polish a few years back (and gave up after 3 months). And I thought THAT was bad! ;)

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Apparently, in Czech, you can say "put your finger through your nose" (or something very similar) without using any vowels.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Apperently they have the world's highest concentration per head of the adult working population, of denture repair technicians. This may be linguistic in origin.

Or possibly the economists who research these figures misheard, or suffered brain damage and deafness from flying porcelain ejective consonants.

[vatine]

"srpt $consonant krk" if I remember correctly. I probably don't.

[vatine]

And I believe it is "finger through thoat", as said by a male speaker (yes, Czech apparently has divergent grammar for first person singular, depending on ´grammatical gender of teh speaker).

Even sir names change

[pvaneynd]

The couple is called "Kubatovi", she is a "Kubatova" and he is "Kubatovo". As far as I understand.