Re: cowan list abstracting service (was: RE: IntroductionThanks for the welcome to Conlang. I am very glad I was told about i

In a message dated 2003:05:23 01:38:33 PM, the ever-erudite John Cowan writes:

>BP Jonsson scripsit:
>
>> Good idea, but how do you manage, John?
>
>Broadband Internet connection plus a gift of being able to read really,
>really fast even in distracting surroundings.  I type pretty quickly too,
>which helps with writing lots of replies.
    While I manage to read 50-80% of the list's postings nowadays and reply
to some... at speeds ranging from Sluggy Sloth Mode to Cheeky Chimpanzee Mode
to Leapin' Lemur Mode (and occasional Foraging Ferret Mode *oh oh
shiny...shiny*),
    John Cowan here seems to operate at one speed and only one: Cheery
Cheetah Mode...  ::rueful grin recallin' 2 separate flurries - er, blizzards of
private emails regarding Lingua Franca/Sabir and Cham, including addenums::

---
Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;) &  lingua-mang(a)leer
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

    "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language,
and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of
human comprehension." - Ezra Pound

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

    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as
'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
                --- Blaise Cendrars