Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

>On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 10:34:16PM -0300, João Ricardo Oliveira wrote:
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>> > The verb is the most important part of the sentence. You can have a
>sentence without an object and even without a subject, but never without a
verb.

    Sacre Yves Klein Bleu!, you really stepped into a messy one...
    Hmm, evidently you have not seen All-Noun languages... fascinating
languages...
[check-out All-Noun and all the conlangs based on All-Noun at
http://www.langmaker.com/ ]

    I have found that if there is one field where there are more exceptions
to the rules than exceptional (universal) rules, it's gotta be linguistics.
    The Christophe Grandsire ConLinguistics Rule of Thumb: if ya can imagine
it, it probably exists or has existed somewhere...

---
Hanuman Zhang
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    "Those at the top of the social order are apt to preach benevolence and
righteousness to those at the bottom. Yet those at the top have typically
stolen their position from others. They are the greatest thieves, because
they have stolen the greatest amount of land and other property. So words
about benevolence and righteousness are usually the fruit of robbery." -
Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi

"O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! Of thee I sing. How inscrutable is
the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a
living and forget to play!" - Lin Yutang, _The Importance of Living_

    "...So what is life for? Life is for beauty and substance and sound and
colour; and even those are often forbidden by law [socio-cultural
conventions]. . . . Why not be free and live your own life? Why follow other
people's rules and live to please others?..." ~Lieh-Tzu/Liezi, Taoist Sage
(c. 450- c. 375 BCE)

    "Logic, organization, government should all be forgotten inasmuch as they
begin themselves by making us forget the essential. ... We should learn to
live without working. That would mean we would have to live creatively."
        ~~~ John Cage, composer/thinker (1912-1992)

    "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent.  It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage --- to move in
the opposite direction."
 - E. F. Schumacker

    "Excess is excrement. Excrement retained in the body is poison." - Ursula
Le Guin

    "A man's character is determined by how hard he will fight for what he
believes in." - Aben Kandel

"There is no total revolution, there is only _perpetual_ Revolution,
real life, like love, dazzling at every moment." - Paul Eluard

=> To Thine Own Self Be True <=

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