ATTN: Roger Mills
From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
Date: | Friday, July 4, 2003, 3:15 |
::pauses from oh-ing and ah-ing over "package" a la Kiki the Ferret::
Thanx for the nifty "package".... and g0miileg0 thanx ya too...
::returns to oh-ing and ah-ing over "package" a la Kiki the Ferret::
---
Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist ;) & lingua-mang(a)leer
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
= ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen
riizijkl0! =
(Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)
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