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Re: Anyone see this? A fantastic resource!

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, March 5, 2004, 23:28
In a message dated 2004:03:05 01:33:53 AM, treborjung@FREE.FR writes:

>Has anyone seen >http://www.wordgumbo.com/index.htm? The site contains wordlists of, among a
number of others, Turkish, Tahitian, Russian, Finnish, French, Swahili, Zulu...and even Yoruba!! Words, so many words...J Y S Czhang's >dream come true - the place for exotic mangalangers! ::inks up stamp of approval & bops the URL with said seal:: Yepyep... nifty-keen. --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* Hang Binary,baby...--- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) <A HREF="http://www.boheme-magazine.net">=> boheme-magazine.net</A> 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... ...languages are "naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary Snyder "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ¡ gw'araa legooset caacaa ! ¡ reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo ! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]