There are times when reality severely strains the resources of parody. But some brave souls try and try (god bless their hearts). This one (
here) came my way recently. A good friend tells me that s/he found the original far less plausible and much funnier. Judge for yourself.
An abridgement of a much more scholarly 2008 original:
ReplyDeletehttp://anthroling.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/cultural-constraints-on-aharip-grammar/
Unfortunately, it is not quite clear from the article if the Aharip "people communicate almost as much by singing, whistling, and humming as they do using consonants and vowels." (My favorite quotation.)
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