In a message dated 05/31/2002 12.33.38 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:
>Isn't it? That's why I always read all the posts from the list. Even the
>most off-topic ones can be enlightening, if only by the very internationality
>of the list, which helps watching things with another point of view. I find
that
>very important both for my conlanging and my everyday life.
I second that opinion most heartily :)
<SNiP>
>:))) I find it a nice project. Currently, you make me think of Chang, but
>without his typing mania ;)) (no offense meant Hanuman, rather the
>contrary :)) ).
*snarfle-snort* ;) "Typing mania" 0_o? What typing mania? ;)
No offense taken, CG
::aside to John Cowan:: Ever notice that Christophe's intials are
_exactly_ like that of Curious George's? Interesting synchronicity there, eh?
hehe...
> [ . . . ] I suffered of the "Oh! Shiny!" syndrome :)) .
LOL like Kiki the Ferret <re: www.sluggyfreelance {?}>, eh?
> [. . . ] And Maggel is full of those kinds of little tricks :)) ).
Neat, but I still have to fight the lingua-visceral impulse to run for
the hills or dropping in a dead-faint ;)
"Eek! Its Maggel... and its brain-stunnin' orthography!"
CG, IMHO Itakian is mischieviously brainie... and Notya mind-blowing...
but Maggel ::shakes head in mock depression and angst:: makes my poor head go
in spirals.
Tip o' dhe ol' hat ta ya, CG.
>Everybody knows the perfect dialect of English is the one spoken nearly
>natively by a French <runs for his life> ;))))) .
I thought the perfect dialect of English is Shanghai English (especially
when spoken so nicely by young females...) <dons flak jacket & dives into
bomb-shelter head-first>
>> This was based on a couple prejudices of mine... one is that I
>> figure it's a sin we don't have a more phonemic
>> alphabet, and another is that I think we need a whole
>> pile of new letters.
>
>Well, I like the idea of the pile of new letters. English is boring in
>its insistance in not using any diacritic :)) .
>
>> Hër Aë røët (not de Kænädëæn vauwel räzing :) ) søm
>> tekst in maë prsønæl or agræfë... de coëßes øv letrs
>> mäk no kläms tu inhärent supërëoritë øv enë sort ænd
>> ar æ kambinäxøn "artistik" ventyur ænd øltimætlë
>> _or ogræfikæl_ (if dæt emfæsis mäks senß - søm
>> dësizhøns an speling wr mäd an haëlë flipænt
>> kraëtërëæ...) reprëzentäxøn øv maë nätiv daëælekt, de
>> most prfekt form øv Inglix dæt hæz evr egzisted ;) ;).
>> I rot al maë prsønæl læb nots dis wäy :).
>
> [ . . . ] You make English look like a Scandinavian language,
>I like it :)) .
Intriguing...
>> Aend hyr iz soem riten in dhe daygraefikael vaariaent
>> oev dhe skript... :P
>
>And now it looks like Old Dutch! I like it even more :))) .
Niceness.
In a message dated 05/31/2002 06.55.32 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:
>En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
>> No. In the old days, conlanging was intellectual masturbation.
>> With the arrival of this list, it has become intellectual *intercourse*.
>
>Intercourse? We're 360 subscribed on the list, with a good 40 who actually
>participate discussions! If we take the metaphor to its logical end, we're
>deep in a big intellectual orgy! (and now I wait for czHANG to remind me how
>sex-minded I am ;))) )
:: not rising to that bait, tho' tempting ::
In a message dated 05/31/2002 07.06.26 AM, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:
>Why not? As Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th-century U.S. essayist) said (I think
>it was him): It is only through listservs that we have intercourse with
>superior minds.
>
>Awright, he said "books". Technodetails.
Drat it!!!!... I was gonna comment on those "technodetails" but ya
prempted that... LMAO ::wraps head in tinfoil shield, suspecting John Cowan
of some kind of telepathy::
Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/
~§~
M'illumino
d'immenso
notte stellata
matematica...
les astres sont
le silencieux orchestre
des mondes inconnus...
avec le vide, les pleins pouvoirs