FCS
2008-02-01 07:47:01 UTC
Not many people, and by people we mean Londonsticians, had heard of
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq,
last native-speaker of the obscure tongue HighFrerman, an obscure and
difficult-to-master un-language made of a curious overlap between
Romance
and Germanic, but the last native speaker of it has passed.
Bucolic, critical, and a hihg-level initiate in the marital art of
jazz,
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
first came to prominence by popularising this obscure tongue under its
English name Franglais. Suffering however from the cruel
pronouncements
of an insensitive commercially-driven budget-obsessed academic
publishing
market, language and culture title 'Punch' eventually caved in to
receivership.
Following this, interest was maintained largely through the
machinations of
the UK quality press in the form of The Independent, although friends
later
said
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
wished he had passed his linguistic gift onto CBBC.
Some television interest followed but insufficient polylinguality in
the English
audience left
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
disillusioned and appealing mainly to a minority audience trained in
the arts
of reading and writing, very few of whom could understand some of the
more
sublime constructions the language employed in its conceptual
framework,
much less write it in their sleep.
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
came
to regret this later in life, and could often be found shunning the
attentions of
dealine-waving editors, whom he loathed with enthusiasm, instead
immersing
himself in the intoxication of traditional jazz and hard licks.
Yes, that's right, hot on the heels of japing bookworm Jeremy Beadle,
Miles
Kington's passing has been announced.
G DAEB
COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
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La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq,
last native-speaker of the obscure tongue HighFrerman, an obscure and
difficult-to-master un-language made of a curious overlap between
Romance
and Germanic, but the last native speaker of it has passed.
Bucolic, critical, and a hihg-level initiate in the marital art of
jazz,
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
first came to prominence by popularising this obscure tongue under its
English name Franglais. Suffering however from the cruel
pronouncements
of an insensitive commercially-driven budget-obsessed academic
publishing
market, language and culture title 'Punch' eventually caved in to
receivership.
Following this, interest was maintained largely through the
machinations of
the UK quality press in the form of The Independent, although friends
later
said
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
wished he had passed his linguistic gift onto CBBC.
Some television interest followed but insufficient polylinguality in
the English
audience left
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
disillusioned and appealing mainly to a minority audience trained in
the arts
of reading and writing, very few of whom could understand some of the
more
sublime constructions the language employed in its conceptual
framework,
much less write it in their sleep.
La'Ville'Au'Roi'des'huit'mille'metres'de'Napoleon'apres'la'divison'par'cinq
came
to regret this later in life, and could often be found shunning the
attentions of
dealine-waving editors, whom he loathed with enthusiasm, instead
immersing
himself in the intoxication of traditional jazz and hard licks.
Yes, that's right, hot on the heels of japing bookworm Jeremy Beadle,
Miles
Kington's passing has been announced.
G DAEB
COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
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