Softball: The Moral Taint of Ray-Bans
Dear People,
Alan Brill’s team pulverized my own, 28-17, but that’s only because of Michael Davey’s somewhat curious decision to engage the left field sun in an intermittent game of raw visual chicken. Oh sure, he could’ve resorted to sunglasses, visors or even a condom, yet he stoically stuck to his principles, and in the end, the dozen unearned runs that resulted is a small price to pay for such rare aerobic integrity.
Indeed, the sun’s apparent victory was a pyrrhic one, for in less than five billion years, that despicable excuse-for-a-star will explode and die in a pitiful hydrogen-depleted state of complete gaseous failure! On the other hand, I for one will forever cherish the memory of Mikie constantly diving for cover whenever the ball came plummeting toward his blinded little face, and therefore there will be a game at San Pablo #2 this Sunday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
10/19/07
Softball: Ig-pay Atin-lay? (Speakers Needed)…
Dear People,
There will be a game at San Pablo #2 this Sunday at 11AM, and as of now there are still two slots left. Please bring $3 for the field, which for this week only includes my nationally-renowned arugula and goat cheese salad with your choice of seasonal garden gravies…Raymond 845-7552
PS: As most of you know, Pig Latin is my 17th favorite quasi-tongue, and thus when I received the missive below from my beloved niece Sara, I was more than happy to send out the word. For the record, Sara is currently studying at Brown, writes perky little phrases like “the phonotactic constraints of the language” (just like I did all those years ago), and most importantly, can be reached at: swesch@gmail.com
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I am currently in a phonology course and we are doing a brief study of what language games can reveal about the phonotactic constraints of the language off of which they are based. Apparently, there are various 'dialects' that arise in language games and these can tell you something about the underlying representations of words in people's lexicons.
I have an assignment that requires me to find three "fluent" speakers of Pig Latin and have them repeat certain phrases. Afterwards, I'll have to do an analysis of how they parsed the syllables to produce the Pig Latin forms. Anyway though, it's surprisingly hard to find fluent speakers of Pig Latin in my age group (for some reason, it's just dying off), so I was wondering if any among you are fluent Pig Latin speakers, and if so, if I could talk to you for a few minutes this weekend.
It would be a time commitment of only about three or four minutes for anyone who chose to respond. All I would need you to do would be to 'translate' five sentences into Pig Latin. Thanks!