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L O W L A N D S - L  -  22 December 2007 - Volume 04
Song Contest: lowlands-l.net/contest/ (- 31 Dec. 2007)
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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Language attitudes" 2007.12.22 (01) [E]

> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Language attitudes" 2007.12.21 (03) [E]
>
> How about a "Most Pointless Contest" contest?  They could hardly lose
> with that one.

Maybe we could hold one on the list? Something I thought of while
driving about lost in Exeter in Devon today...

You know the English comedian Tony Hancock who wore a Homburg hat as his
trademark before his head got too big for it?

And you know how when you see people wearing hats, especially at
weddings, there's always good hats and bad hats?

Well, driving about Exeter today trying to find the CityLink depot, I
drove down quite a large road called "Bad Homburg Way".

So my entry in the Most Pointless Contest Contest is...

"To nominate the place name that sounds silliest to speakers of the
indigenous language".

And if this entry wins the contest contest, I thereafter nominate the
entry to the winning contest (after considering the village of "Velvet
Bottom" in Somerset and "Little Heck" in Yorkshire) to be "Bad Homburg
Way", in Exeter, Devon.

:)

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Contest

From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: Miss beautiful language

.....I just read the news on Eurolang.net and they have a news item about
Estonia announcing a 'Miss contest' for beautiful languages....

Marcus Buck

Most languages might walk away with prizes if only more contests of the sort
were organized. For example ...

   - Cutest language
   - Most sophisticated-sounding language
   - Purest language
   - Most percussive language
   - Language least likely to be identified by unprepared linguists
   - Easiest oral language for sinusitis sufferers
   - Oral language requiring the highest degree of lingual mobility
   - Oral language requiring the lowest degree of labial mobility
   - Best oral language for toothless people that wear no dental
   prostheses
   - Most human-sounding language when used by parrots, parakeets, ravens
   and lyrebirds
   - Most convenient oral language at sub-zero temperatures
   - Language most easily understood through a felt *burqa*
   - Language most likely to be mistaken for machine gun fire
   - Most convenient oral language in which to request the Heimlich
   maneuver
   - Language most despised by its own users
   - Most misnamed language
   - Language with the largest number of names
   - Most ridiculed language
   - Most ridiculous language
   - Holiest language
   - Most forgotten language
   - Most descriptive language
   - Most floral language
   - Most bombastic language
   - Most related language
   - Language most likely to be of extraterrestrial origin

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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