Re: Poll: Gaming group size

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:57:06 GMT, Will Green <soulbro42@xxxxxxxxx> scribed
into the ether:

Matt Frisch wrote:

First thing I noticed is that dutch sounds a lot like the speaker is
endlessly clearing their throat. Also, I learned the dutch word for
baseball bat...(horrid spelling aside): honkballkinipple! It's the only
word of dutch I know.

And the winner for the Greatest Word in the World goes to....!

It's even better when some little 23 year old blonde dutch hottie is saying
it. They also put extra emphasis on the "honk"...They pronounced it almost
like "hcwonk", but that's not all that close. They basically pronounced a
hard H, which I'd never heard before in any english word. Going back to the
clearing your throat bit, if you pronounce the "honk" but pretend you are
conjuring up some spit (no phlegm) while saying it, that's closer to what
it sounded like.
.

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