Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > >>On 2005-06-30, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Due to some wierd property requiring conservation of >> consonants, when speaking Strine you've got to take the r's >> removed from words like "carrier" and "order", and add them to >> the ends of other words like Amanda. > > I feel obliged to point out that there's probably only about 50,000 > speakers of Strine in Australia out of approx 20 million people, so a > lot of those consonants are ending up in landfill somewhere, rather than > being conserved in an environmentally-friendly way.
So that's why pirates were always walking around saying "Aaarrrrrrrrrr." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list