French swallow consonants, feel full all day!

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Oh,no!!!! No self-respecting French speaker would actually swallow a 
consonant (especially not without wine, cheese, or bread)--he or she would simply 
chose not to utter them, which would take far less energy than actually pronouning 
them. 

It seems more likely that the constant lip rounding from making all those 
front rounded vowels would cause the French to burn more calories than the 
English or the Russians, though that would still leave any fat Germans unexplained. 
The French must, of course, worry that the Academie Police will have them 
arrested for using foreign words, and the energy that is expended thereby is 
something that Germans do not have to put up with.

In a message dated 10/15/06 10:52:48 PM, bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU 
writes:


> On 10/15/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > This item from the Weekly World News (at my local supermarket) is  
> hilarious.
> > ...
> > ...
> > _http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2_
> > (http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2)
> > ...
> > French Diet Secrets Revealed: Swallow Consonants, Feel Full All Day
> 
> Thanks for the tip, Barry!
> 
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003680.html
> 
> --Ben Zimmer
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