Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

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!" *



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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...


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_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

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