Language

Tongue Twisters. Can you speak these lines??

1. If you understand, say "understand" . If you don't understand, say "don't understand". But if you understand and say "don't understand". How do I understand that you understand? Pot -Head Tongue-Twister - A Poem. Tongue Twister Sms. Tongue-twister. A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game.

Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value. Types of tongue-twisters[edit] Tongue-twisters may rely on rapid alternation between similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a spoken language in order to be difficult to articulate.

For example, the following sentence was claimed as "the most difficult of common English-language tongue-twisters" by William Poundstone.[1] The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.