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Answer to #9
Posted By: Sam, on host 12.25.1.128
Date: Monday, February 1, 1999, at 10:42:29
In Reply To: Even More Language Puzzles posted by Sam on Tuesday, January 26, 1999, at 13:45:04:

> 9. Lion soup bade sour fife tours accede.

Each word consists of two adjacent vowels, and the
only consonants in them appear *between* the two
adjacent vowels. There aren't a lot of words that
have this property, hence the nonsensicality (is
that a word?) of the sentence.