Factoids!
- A website with very odd samples of computer-synthesized German speech can be found here. It includes German spoken in computer-generated Saxon (g, mp3) and French (g, mp3) accents.
- Let's keep on the subject of Saxony, a state in the former East Germany. According to someone I hung out with a couple of weeks ago, Saxons were offered classes in the early 1990s to help them get rid of their distinctive accents. And you thought accent-tony-fication was only for Margaret Thatcher!
- Frogs have no penises.
- The Mounties Catch Herpes.
That's all the factoiding for today.
Interesting speech stuff.
And Don - considering the recent stats that were released regarding the penis size of said nationality, I'd think quite the opposite were true.
Posted by: Driftingfocus | December 10, 2008 at 08:49 AM
Ahem, Andrew. Are you certain you were examining a he-frog, or might it have been a she-frog?
Or are you using 'frog' as a colloquialism for a certain European nationality, in which case you should be willing to back your canard with solid (preferably pictoral) evidence.....
Posted by: Don | December 03, 2008 at 07:13 PM