Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 27, 2004, 6:23 |
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In a message dated 2004:02:26 07:26:44 PM, axiem@FASTMAIL.FM writes:
>I like it when authors tell me the way to pronounce
>things. That way I can intentionally butcher it :)
Spooken (or writ) liek a tru manglalangewr...
--- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* Hang Binary,baby...---
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 & creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
= ¡ gw'araa legooset caacaa !
¡ reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo ! =
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