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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums“pad kid poured curd pulled cod"-- Toughest tongue twister of all time.
If anyone can say this [phrase] ten times quickly, they get a prize, said Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, a psychologist from MIT who specializes in speech errors as a way of understanding normal brain functions, and one of the creators of the mouth-boggling phrase.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/12/05/mit-tongue-twister-trickiest-to-say/
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Couldn't any words with confusing sounds be combined this way? IMO, a true tongue-twister should at least be a grammatically correct sentence or phrase.
My favorite:
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)I'm sorry, but there just is no other way.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)one could throw together a bunch of random Russian words and get the toughest tongue-twister of all time-- thousands of them, in fact
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)But when you say it fast, well...that's kinda the point.
petronius
(26,613 posts)And that's why I always order by the numbers...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I'm not the pheasant plucker I'm the pheasant plucker's son
and I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.
he he he...
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)there are even political overtones.
Iggo
(47,591 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
It's a toughie.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I use to practice it as a kid determined to master it. One of my favorites.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)As the worlds hardest. This was back in the 70's.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)but the hardest one for me has always started something like:
Thursten Thessle is a successful thistle sifter.
He sifts the sieves of three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Something like that. I could look it up but I wanted to try to remember it.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)on the menu at the new Thai place