In the course of my last post on “restorative justice” gone wrong I recalled something from my childhood.
One of the favorite tongue twisters of the day was this: “A Scottish soldier got shot in the shoulder”.
And then I thought about my Vietnamese tongue twister incident in 2006…..
And now I’m thinking; are tongue twisters more than just acts of linguistic gymnastics? Are they actually perhaps a useful cultural barometer? Or are the good peoples of Vietnam and N Ireland simply subconsciously drawn to tongue twisters with themes of violence, vengance and victory?
As eXtreme liked to say: “more than words”.
