Re: OT: My wedding pictures
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 7, 2003, 3:58 |
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In a message dated 2003:08:06 01:06:46 AM, ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK writes:
>Interesting, how a message about wedding pictures could change into an
>English pronunciation thread within one day :))) .
AiYaH!!! At least _someone_ finds humour in this...
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Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
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