: perks up : Did someone just mention my country?
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Something along these lines was tried in the Bosnian regions, leading to great conversational difficulties. The then US president, Clinton, tried to help with the following actions; (from news clipping)
CLINTON DEPLOYS VOWELS TO BOSNIA
Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia.
The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O and U, and is hoped to render countless Bosnian names more pronounceable. "For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have been horribly butchered by millions around the world," Clinton said. "Today, the United States must finally stand up and say 'Enough.' It is time the people of Bosnia finally had some vowels in their incomprehensible words. The US is proud to lead the crusade in this noble endeavor."
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Hee! Where did you find this? I never saw it before! I'm having fun with the city names - they just typed a meaningless string of letters and not actually disemvoweled a couple of city names, like Mstr or Srjv or Zvrnk (we don't have a "y" in our alphabet, for example, or "x" and "w", except in foreign names).
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The deployment, dubbed Operation Vowel Storm by the State Department, is set for early next week, with the Adriatic port cities of Sjlbvdnzv and Grzny slated to be the first recipients. Two C-130 transport planes, each carrying over 500 24-count boxes of "E's," will fly from Andrews Air Force Base across the Atlantic and airdrop the letters over the cities.
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Hee! Adriatic port cities? I wish - our Adriatic coast has one town - Nm
- and is 24.5 km (15 mi) long:
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Citizens of Grzny and Sjlbvdnzv eagerly await the arrival of the vowels. "My God, I do not think we can last another day," Trszg Grzdnjkln, 44, said. "I have six children and none of them has a name that is understandable to me or to anyone else. Mr. Clinton, please send my poor, wretched family just one 'E.' Please."
Said Sjlbvdnzv resident Grg Hmphrs, 67: "With just a few key letters, I could be George Humphries. This is my dream." The airdrop represents the largest deployment of any letter to a foreign country since 1984. During the summer of that year, the US shipped 92,000 consonants to Ethiopia, providing cities like Ouaouoaua, Eaoiiuae, and Aao with vital,
life-giving supplies of L's, S's and T's.
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LOL at people names! "Grg" might become Grigorije, if he was an Orthodox Serb, or Grgur if he was a Catholic Croat! I can't think of a Bosnian Muslim name with those consonants right now.
And most of our last names
end with -ić or -ović, though not all and you can usually tell the nationality by name and last name.
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As you can see, GB's usage of so many extra 'U's' is might actually be a good thing! 
Stitchawl
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I got such a good laugh out of this, you made my day!