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*eek!* Borg - 01000010011011110111001001100111-...(wasRe: another introduction

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Thursday, May 29, 2003, 5:41
In a message dated 2003:05:28 06:19:11 PM, a4pq1injbok_0@FASTMAIL.FM Alex
Fink writes:

>In the following (doubtless confusing) interlinear, a number in curly braces >denotes the number of arguments which the word takes, Polish notation style. >It may help to know that to assert "x exists" it suffices to say only x. > >1000 10010100000 >something both {2} exclusive we >11111- 10101011- 01000010011011110111001001100111 >(name) 32 bits "Borg" (in ASCII) > >0100011110001 11000001- 011 >(cessative) {1} something which could be argument 2 of {1} >0110001000010-0-0 10010100001 10010100001 >is familiar with {2} you (plural) you > >10110011000- 11- 0011 >(the conjunction of the following as x[0] ranges over 2 things) {3} >010001101000 01011100001-0-0 10010100000 >(future) {1} (causative) {2} we >010110000101100011-0-0 1000 100110-11 00100101111000-0 10010100000 >becomes combined with {2} both {2} x[ 0] distinct to {1} we >1000 100110-11 00100101111000-0 10010100001 >both {2} x[ 0] distinct to {1} you >000001111111110 0011001100111111110 >biological technological > >10110100- 11 011010010000-0-0 10010100001 >(for all values of x[0] which are) {2} (an event of) tries {2} you >01011100001- 1-0 1011100 1100010 >(causative) (causer omitted) {1} not {1} something >0010000010010001-0-0 100110-11 10010100001 >is not useful to {2} x[ 0] you
>We are the Borg. Existence as you know it is over. We will add your >biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is >futile.
::head-swimming with binary, backing away from Fink Unit of Borg:: WoWzA!! Such a pretty language... almost temptin' to be assimilated just to become fluent ;) Bravo... bravo, more en-core... ::still goes for the Borg Alert panic button, accidently hits the Maggel button instead:: --- 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_ = ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)

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