Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

On 3/6/06, Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> wrote:
> on 3/7/06 5:17 AM, Herman Miller at hmiller@IO.COM wrote:
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> > 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.)
>
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> * 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 . . .


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> Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger
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>      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...
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> "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_
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>                 "We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes,
>                 to find each other." - Jose Saramago
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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