Most Difficult Tongue Twister

[Deepak]

Yesterday I saw what they claim to be "most difficult TT", I'll post it tomorrow. In the meatime you guys can post your TTs.

 

[silence]

Yesterday I saw what they claim to be "most difficult TT", I'll post it tomorrow. In the meatime you guys can post your TTs.

hmmmm..... i already sense this will turn out into pretty weird topic, so i'll post about places where i twisted my tongue after others share their experiences....

 

[_xxx_]

Clitoris. Not the word.

 

[horvendile]

One of my Swedish favourites constisting of one word is "västkustskt".

"Västkust" means west coast, and the ending "-skt" indicates the quality of belonging to (the west coast). Thus, a west coast house will be "ett västkustskt hus".

You can of course expand this to, say, the city of Irkutsk, and will then end up with "Irkutskskt". But "västkustskt" is actually in practical use.

 

[MuFu]

The Welsh village, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll Llantysiliogogogoch.

 

[Mize]

Clitoris. Not the word.

I've never found that one to be particularly "difficult," but it is quite the twister.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

The most difficult TT:

public Element popItemAtPosition( Element o, int idx )
	{		
		this.isAccessable = false;
		
		for(int i=0; i < this.queue.size(); i++)
		{
			if(i == idx)
			{
				if(this.queue.get(i).equals(o))
				{
					Element el = this.queue.remove(i);
					this.isAccessable = true;
					return el;
				}
			}
		}
		
		this.isAccessable = true;
		return null;
	}

 

[_xxx_]

Clitoris. Not the word.

I've never found that one to be particularly "difficult," but it is quite the twister.

I find it quite difficult if the lady is of the kind "hard to please and likes it a bit harder"...

 

[cristic]

Err, ...

public Element popItemAtPosition( Element o, int idx )
   {
      while (!isAccessable); //  ###isn't this missing ?!###
      
      this.isAccessable = false;
      
      for(int i=0; i < this.queue.size(); i++)
      {
         if(i == idx)
         {
            if(this.queue.get(i).equals(o))
            {
               Element el = this.queue.remove(i);
               this.isAccessable = true;
               return el;
            }
         }
      }
      
      this.isAccessable = true;
      return null;
   }

And why aren't you using Java synchronization primitives ?

 

[RussSchultz]

I don't see how the syncronization works, as written. Two statements can't be atomic, unless there's something wierd in the language.

 

[Neeyik]

The Welsh village, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll Llantysiliogogogoch.

[geekwelshmode]
It's all one word - not two! Oh and that's the tourist name for the village; it's "just" called Llanfairpwllgwyngyll officially or Llanfair PG if you're a local.
[/geekwelshmode]

Here's my TT:

How many cuckoos could a good cook cook, if a cook could cook cuckoos.

 

[RussSchultz]

Here's my TT:

How many cuckoos could a good cook cook, if a cook could cook cuckoos.

Similarly how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

But that would actually seems pretty easy.

 

[ZoinKs!]

Back in 5th-6th grade, the guys got a big kick out of this one:

"The city sherriff sat on the city bench."

You're supposed to say it out loud, five times, fast. Pretty pathetic but so are late elementary to jr. high humor.

 

[Lumine]

A couple difficult ones I know:

Unique New York

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk

The second one is harder, I think, because it is actually a tongue twister in that you have to make the sounds by moving your tongue to different areas of your mouth, moreover to mutually exclusive areas.

 

[MuFu]

The Welsh village, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll Llantysiliogogogoch.

[geekwelshmode]
It's all one word - not two!

You must be thinking of a different village.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Dr.Seuss' "Fox in Sox", the most evil tongue-twister imaginable.

 

[StefanS]

If you want to torture people from Japan:

"Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut. Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid"

That works everytime

 

[digitalwanderer]

Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

 

[nelg]

from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

My daughter loves it when I read her that one. It makes me sound like such an idiot.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I don't see how the syncronization works, as written. Two statements can't be atomic, unless there's something wierd in the language.

I use a singleton subclass, honestly though I should have done the synchronisation code there, but I'm too lazy.
The synchronisation is useless for non-singleton objects.

The other guy is right though, there are many better ways of accomplishing the same thing under Java.