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Re: "art", "Art" & anti-Art (was Re: conlangs as art (was: Re: Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 22:31
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:52 PM, John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> wrote:
> At least on the phono-orthographic front, Monty Python had this dadaist > linguistic gem (I paraphrase): > > "Hello, Mr. Luxury Yacht." > "That's not my name. I know it's spelled Luxury Yacht but it's actually > pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove."
*laugh* This reminds me of our conversations at the Bay Area meets about a conlang with phonological wardrobing, spatial positioning, volume, pauses, and color. ;-) Parker linked me this: http://kisa.ca/oou.html It reminds me a lot of the programming language BrainFuck (and in turn, the Obfuscated C Code Competition). /me wonders what an Obfuscated Conlang Competition would look like... - Sai