Re: USAGE: Belgium in H2G2 (was Re: USAGE: number concord in AmE, again)

In a message dated 06/22/2002 06.11.20 AM, matthew bladen@BTOPENWORLD.COM
writes:

>Attempting to turn this back on-topic, does anyone have conlangs in
>which an innocent natlang word means something abominable -- or vice
>versa?
    In my neo-futuist(ic) Creolego /kreo.lego/, "art" is perjorative in the
sense that it is an over-used/abused word in "mainstream Globalist Pop
Culture" (i.e. "the art of doodling," "the art of toilets", "the art of being
a professional couch-potato", etc. as well as the whole ideology/culture,
theory and practise of art-as-commodity).

    Instead, creative work/craft is referred to as:

    --- "daida" /daI.da/ (from the Greek "Daidalos", Latin "Daedalus" and
relateable to "Dada" * )
    * Daida also includes "culture-jamming", "computer-hacking", "TV/radio
piracy", "billboard-defacing", etc.

    --- "mµza" */mju.za/(from the PIE *mon-twa, Greek "mousa", Latin "musa",
... "muse", "music", "museum", etc. = inspired _and_ inspiring creative work
- utterly shocking, intensely beautiful or extremely thought-provoking)
    *  µ ===> Greek letter 'mu'

    ---"lilla" /li.La/ (from Sanskrit "lila", 'divine play' = creative work
that incorporates religious/scientific cosmological meaning(s)/significance).


Hanuman Zhang

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    "La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
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