Haven't had any in years, though. Which is probably a good thing. ;-)
As for Malti/Maltese: yeah, my first reaction was definitely something along the lines of "You have *got* to be kidding me, Malti."
It gets slightly less exciting, though, when you learn that most of the weird look derives just from some odd spelling conventions. Also, a lot of it doesn't look quite as alien as that phrase I quoted. :-(
So, the weirdest languages on Earth are probably still the African clicking languages that sound like Sebacean, and that whistling language they have or used to have somewhere on some Atlantic island or other.
That's a shame, really. It would be cool if it were more like that.
I love the click languages (my brother's got a South African girlfriend - unfortunately she only speaks Afrikaans :( Now if she'd learnt Zulu, then I might be saying something different here. Sadly not). That about the whistling language has reminded me - there's another non-verbal one from somewhere like Spain (or possibly not), but I can't remember what on earth it is.
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Date: 2010-03-22 08:23 am (UTC)I can believe that!
Date: 2010-03-22 09:01 pm (UTC)But, seriously, doesn't that phrase look *just* like Klingon? Or something similarly extraterrestrial? *g*
Re: I can believe that!
Date: 2010-03-23 03:06 pm (UTC)Although now I am craving Maltesers (no fault of yours, though).
Hehe, yeah, I know the lure of Maltesers.
Date: 2010-03-24 12:55 am (UTC)As for Malti/Maltese: yeah, my first reaction was definitely something along the lines of "You have *got* to be kidding me, Malti."
It gets slightly less exciting, though, when you learn that most of the weird look derives just from some odd spelling conventions. Also, a lot of it doesn't look quite as alien as that phrase I quoted. :-(
So, the weirdest languages on Earth are probably still the African clicking languages that sound like Sebacean, and that whistling language they have or used to have somewhere on some Atlantic island or other.
Re: Hehe, yeah, I know the lure of Maltesers.
Date: 2010-03-26 08:29 pm (UTC)I love the click languages (my brother's got a South African girlfriend - unfortunately she only speaks Afrikaans :( Now if she'd learnt Zulu, then I might be saying something different here. Sadly not). That about the whistling language has reminded me - there's another non-verbal one from somewhere like Spain (or possibly not), but I can't remember what on earth it is.