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Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 22:03
On 3/6/06, Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> wrote:
> on 3/7/06 5:17 AM, Herman Miller at hmiller@IO.COM wrote: > > > I like this one a lot as well. Maybe I'll think about translating it > > into one of my newer languages and using it in place of the old Tirelat > > version of the slogan on my green ribbon page: > > > > http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/green-ribbon.html > > > > (where I see that it was J Y S Czhang who came up with the original slogan.) > > > * runs & hides in the flamewar-proof Conlang List bombshelter while > mutterin' "f'ank you, Herman!" *
Am I to infer from this that "J Y S Czhang" and "Hanuman Zhang" are in fact one and the same? I was wondering where ol' JYSC had gotten off to . . .
> > > > -- > > Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger > > > 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_ > > "We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, > to find each other." - Jose Saramago >
-- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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