Am 26.01.2016 um 01:59 schrieb Jim Henderson:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:11:25 +0100, clipka wrote:
> 
>> Am 25.01.2016 um 21:17 schrieb Jim Henderson:
>>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:29:35 +0100, clipka wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 25.01.2016 um 11:30 schrieb scott:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes they are all pronouneable if you know how to pronounce them :-)
>>>>> Ever heard foreigners trying to pronounce the ones with "cester" in
>>>>> them? I still find place names around here that I have no idea how to
>>>>> pronounce correctly, or worse find out I've been saying them wrong,
>>>>> and I was born here! Imagine what it's like for foreigners...
>>>>
>>>> Bah - English place names are boring. Ever tried Irish?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwstj9FJHGg
>>>
>>> Welsh FTW. :)
>>>
>>> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
>>
>> Not really /that/ difficult. Once you've figured out what sound the "ll"
>> and "w" correspond to, it's pretty straightforward to pronounce. /Very/
>> straightforward actually, IIRC.
>>
>> Irish - not so much.
>>
>> Also that particular place name ist just there for the tourists, and is
>> actually a concatenation of two very verbose descriptive place names:
>> "St. Mary's [Church] by the White Aspen over the Whirlpool by
>> Whathaveyounot and St. Tysilio's [Church] by the Damnedifiremember", or
>> something along those lines. (And yes, that was from 20 year old
>> memory.)
> 
> True, then again, you could always try something like Gaelic.

Well... I /vaguely/ recall having mention Irish ;)

> Or for a 
> challenge, try a non-Romanized language; Russian, Polish, Hungarian (is 
> quite interesting), Japanese, Chinese, or another similar language. :)

I think aside from Chinese (for rather obvious reasons) neither of them
can cope with Irish when it comes to leaving the reader puzzled as to
how an unfamiliar written word is spoken or vice versa, even when said
reader is well-versed in the script(*) used.

That's because Irish is exceptionally unconventional in how it uses the
latin script to render the language's phonemes.

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