Stof the Sfread, Flay Your Fart
c0lo writes:
Stop the spread: no more plosive consonants (watch it)
In the joke clip, Mr Prowse suggests the sounds produced by the letters P, T and C will be phased out and replaced with the sounds produced by N, F and L.
"Consonants project the virus for much greater distances than vowels, and certain consonants - the so-called plosive sounds - are worst of all," he says in the video, which was posted online earlier this month.
[...] Speaking conventionally to ABC Radio Adelaide this morning, Mr Prowse said the public response to the video was completely unexpected.
[...] "It happened all around the world, largely due to a rapper called Zuby, who re-posted it to [a] third-of-a-million followers."
Despite the video being marked as a joke on his YouTube page, some viewers were fooled into taking it seriously.
"Quite a lot of them [are] in America and a lot of them didn't actually realise it was a joke," he said.
Other similar jokes in French and German and some more details here.
No news on the classical Greek; aristarchus could not be contacted
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