Tamara wrote: <How many *native English speakers* from other countries (UK, OZ, Canada) also recognised and interpreted correctly the same truncated version?
> Fr scr nd svn yrs g r frfthrs brght frth t ths ntn...> As a UK English speaker it took me quite a while to work it out. To start with, because it means nothing to me, I don't recognise it and couldn't make a meaningful sentence or statement from it. It isn't a complete sentence which made it even more difficult. I could only have a go at individual words and got: "For soccer and seven your go our firefighters bright forth to those notion." I knew 'firefighters' couldn't be right because I'd put extra consonants in, but then what other word commonly used has those letters? 'Forefathers' (which I think it must be) doesn't exactly trip of your tongue in daily conversation, and 'nation' isn't a word that gets used often in the UK either. I think I finally got it as "Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth to this nation ......" what? Could be oranges, bananas, bicycles .................... Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
