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Far away from me the idea that my English is good, Curious, but are you sure of this? I've stolen this quote as it's written in the book "Thief of Time", by Terry Pratchett...
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08-30-2006, 09:11 PM
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No Francil, i have just commented and i like very much such metaphors .. elsewhere would you tell me about this book ? I am curious and i want to discover it, thanks anyway.
More tongue twisters please 
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Sorry... T. Pratchett writes fantasy books full of humour and fine observation of our times. He writes the "Discworld" novels, that tell about everything that happens on that strange disc-shaped World, carried by four elephants standing on a giant turtle that floats in Space... Actually, you'd better check by yourself on the Web to understand more about him, because I don't think I can give you a good idea of what's indide his head...
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08-31-2006, 09:02 AM
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break with books ..
Thanks for all this information, i am just increasingly curious, so i will look for and download those books
 In this context, you can discover a french thinker " Bernard Werber " whose books & articles deal with fantasy and scientific literature If you are interested, would you begin with " l'arbre des possibles " , and the triology " Les fourmis " .. Really fascinating .. Good discovery for everybody Straight to our lovely tongue-twisters .. 
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These are some english tongue-twisters .. that's strange that we have not yet
1. Five fat friars frying flat fish. 2. Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts. 3. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood. 4. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
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Here is a Persian Tongue twister, I hope you like it:
"sabaazi sareh baazi eh sor-soreh baazi sareh sarbaazi ra shekast." Translation: A soldier broke another soldier's head while playing on the slide.
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Hey, thanks to the tongue-twister above, and its translation, i find it easier to get the meaning of each word of the persian sentence .. that's another interest of tongue twisters
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