Klarinet Archive - Posting 000214.txt from 2005/09

From: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pinky again
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:04:06 -0400

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
> An: klarinet@-----.org
> Betreff: [kl] Pinky again
> Datum: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:16:57 GMT
>
> My wife, who is beginning a conversation course in Lithuanian, started by
> memorising the numbers. So as an exercise, I asked her to tell me what
> our
> telephone number was in Lithuanian, and thereby learned that the
> Lithuanian
> for 5 is 'penki'. (Fits with the 'penta-' prefix, a connection that
> didn't
> get made when we discussed it.)
>
> Tony
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Tony,
I bet that sounded good, " ... penki, penki, penki ... "! three fives in a
row.
What other reason could there be for learning Lithuanian? Aside from that it
sounds sexy?
David

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