Re: ideas and questions

In a message dated 2004:03:09 07:54:48 AM, herodote92@YAHOO.COM writes:

>Of course, there are speech styles much more difficult
>to understand than this example. Just try to read
>Roland Barthes or Lacan and you'll have an idea of it.
>But these authors : 1/ wrote for (supposed)
>high-educated readers; 2/ seemed to think that the
>more obscure they will write, the more clever people
>will think they are.
    For a truly hairy French workout or even "in ____ translation", try Felix
Guattari and Gilles Deleuze... esp'ly their collaborative works like
_Anti-Oedipus_. Makes Max Weber and his German sociology texts look like a walk in the
freakin' park...

    ::imagines a Maggel socio-philosophy or ethico-aesthetics text... & gets
suddenly dizzy and glazed-eyed as an airhead without sufficient oxygen intake::

    ::recovers::
    What _is_ with you French peeps... o_0?
Neeeeveeeer mind... I just remembered the Marquis de Sade was French...
... and some swear I was French in a previous life... go figure...

--- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* Hang Binary,baby...---

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orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

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"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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