Re: more blabbing about Tech, the eternally unfinished conlang
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, January 23, 2003, 15:26 |
Bryan Maloney <slimehoo@...> scripsit:
> Dear fellow,
I myself prefer not to assume an intimacy that does not exist.
> it is not that English has no middle road. The
> affliction is that English of the 20th century has no middle road.
> In the madcap dash towards a "liberation" that ends up liberating
> nobody, a magnificent treasure of English erotic tradition was
> hastily and stupidly thrown away as being mere "euphemism".
Fair enough, although I did say "there is no middle road" rather than
"there never has been a middle road".
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com ccil.org/~cowan
Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos --Lithuanian proverb
Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof
Deity donated dentition;
deity'll donate doughnuts --English version by Muke Tever
God gave gums; God'll give granary --Version by Mat McVeagh