Re: OT: Humor: was Re: Profiles (WAS: Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections)

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christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR graeffii:

>En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
>> Jan van Steenbergen scripsit:
>
>> > "MicroZacht Ramen" (MS Windows)
>
>> Microsoft Noodle?
>
>LOL. That's what it made me think of immediately too ;))) . But the
explanation
>is much more boring: "window" is "raam" in Dutch, plural "ramen" (pronounced,
>at least by the civilised part of the Netherlands ;))) [ram@(n)]).
    Rama ramen, rama rama, ramen rama, ramen ramen...

srii cowan riipong:

>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
>> But the explanation is much more boring:
>
>Nothing in language is truly boring.
    ¡¡¡ j'p-j'p !!! v'rii trjuu-bljuu, juu ;)

---
Hanuman Zhang

    "In the beginning was noise - raw sound, the seed sound, the One, _Nada
Brahma_, the Big Bang. And noise begat rhythm. And rhythm begat everything
else. And thus the Dance began. Rhythm and noise. There is terror in noise,
and in that terror there is also power." - adapted from writings by Mickey
Hart

"I have the feeling that the English word 'noise' has more negative
connotations than our German word 'Gerausch'.  We would describe the sound of
wind blowing as Gerausch, to imply that it's a beautiful and natural sound.
It's so stupid when people say that instead of making beautiful sounds, I
make noise...I like these sounds and this has nothing to do with
'anti-beauty'" - Helmut Lachenmann

"We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident.
But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another
school...We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't
have any."  - Erik Satie

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

---
Hanuman Zhang

...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ... you have
to be aware of the fact that improvisation is about a constant change. -
Steve Beresford

Improvisation: the art of thinking and performing music simultaneously.
--Grove Dictionary of Music (1954)

    Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other
than a free improvisation. - Derek Bailey

    An error may be only an unintentional rightness... Do not be afraid of
being wrong; just be afraid of being uninteresting. - T. Carl Whitmer

The idea of a mistake is beside the point, for once anything happens it
authentically is.
                    - John Cage

    improvvisazione liquida, sospesa temporalmente e profondamente "aliena"