French swallow consonants, feel full all day!

[Chris F Waigl]

Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> On 10/16/06, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Don't forget, Germans might also be overeating as a way of coping with
> the depression brought on by their "grumpy vowels":
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003372.html
>
>
Esp. ü, ö and ä, which someone forgot to note all exist in French (the
sounds, I mean).

Chris Waigl
depressed and grumpy
but glad to learn she's thin because of all the consonants she swallowed
in 11 years in France

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