OT: the name Keith (wasRe: new Klingon spelling)

    I knew a grrlie who's name - believe it or not - was Keith!
She has it on her birth certificate. Her parents were drunk or high
she says.
    But she likes just going by just _K2_*. She even dropped use of her
last name - which started with "K"
(I can totally understand why she dropped the familyname, too:
    with parents like hers,
who would want anything from 'em?).

* remember the bit about "masculine breasts" earlier in the list postings?
anyways...

---  º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º  º°`°º ø,¸~->

Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist
- "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm
me, I know that is poetry.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is
poetry.
These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?" - Emily Dickinson

"Chance is the inner rhythm of the world, and the soul of poetry." - Miguel
de Unamuno

    "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as
'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
                --- Blaise Cendrars

--- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* >Teenage Aboriginal Walkabout Turtles...---

Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang)

     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... languages are
"naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not impose order on a chaotic
universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary Snyder

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

= ¡gw'araa legooset caacaa!
    ¡reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo! =
[Fight Linguistic Waste!
    Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]

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