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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