Bowling Tomatoes

[stoutfellow]

Wherein Sarah B. and her crew, er, strike again.

(Look, I'm going to the dentist in half an hour. I'm entitled to a little frivolity, OK?)

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

I *love* it! The Bowlai Lama? This one had me giggling. Thanks for sharing!
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Grasshoppering, as usual! (g) New topic:

Oh, btw - a friend's daughter who wants to declare a Spanish major apparently cannot roll her "RRRs." My friend called to ask if I believed it possible to learn to roll them. Well, I believe that one can learn to make *any* mouth noise with the proper exercises. Are you, in your linguistic suit, aware of any exercises that I could use to help her learn to do this? If you have no such trick in your own bag, could you please offer this (simple, I'm sure) problem up to your linguistic forums (fora (g))? I'm sure there are some very wonderful exercises out there. Thanks!

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention "good luck at the dentist's!!!!" May your mouth be painfree shortly!

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

About three hours post-visit, my mouth still feels a little funny - mostly from being stretched out of shape. For some reason, he asked me what my favorite Chicago pizza place was, after having inserted what felt like half a dozen appliances and three hands into my mouth. He did have enough sense to start naming places, and I waved a hand when he hit "Giordano's"...

I'm afraid I can't help on the trilling. I learned how to do it by playing machine-gun when I was six or seven years old. But I will see what I can find out.

[filkferengi]

I actually didn't learn to roll the "rrs" until well after my mission. I was working on campus and running errands all over and humming under my breath. Anyway, what started out as "pah-dah" said over and over very rapidly eventually became "pa-rra". I eventually figured out how to control the roll with other vowels. I still practice them all from "ar-ra, ar-re, ar-ri" up to "ur-ra, ur-re, ur-ri, etc." I hope it helps; good luck!

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

The bits about toddlers bowling and about body-English were what tickled me the most.