Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 8:36 |
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In a message dated 2004:01:05 10:32:31 PM, yonjuuni@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>I once heard something like _karioki_, in an anime. A re-Japanification
>of the Anglification of a word partially formed from a Japanification of
>an Anglified Italian term! :-) Ah, the insanity!
A prime & nice example of the natural processes of linguistic mutation at
its most-est Xtremis :)
And a great "resource" & inspiration for all mangalangers...
--- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* >Teenage Aboriginal Walkabout Turtles...---
Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang)
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 and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
= ¡gw'araa legooset caacaa!
¡reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo! =
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