Re: OT: What language is this?

on 10/21/08 10:59 PM, J R at tanuef@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Hanuman Zhang
> <zhang@...>wrote:
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>> mayhaps Pali as interpreted by a Chinese?
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>> Hanuman Zhang
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> This is starting to sound like one of those essentials ... Sanskrit is
> essentially Pali spoken in TIbetan by a Chinese. No, wait....
>
> Josh

 lol where's John Cowan?



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Hanuman Zhang


    "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

> >[...] francophones, hispanophones & speakers
> of other Romance languages are animists who see sex in in everything!
>
> :-D
English is very strange......
Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
Why does X stand for a kiss and O stand for a hug?
Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?
Why don't we say "why" instead of "how come"?
Why is "crazy man" an insult, while to insert a comma and say "Crazy, man!"
is a compliment?
Why are a wise man and wise guy opposites?
Why is abbreviation such a long word?

> Judging from anglophone newspapers, crimes are often perpetrated by persons
> unknown. Why not "unknown persons"?
Q: What will happen in the Aftermath?

A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath.

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