Re: OT (?): Abbvs in txt msgs, & its poss f-ect on Nglish

In a message dated 2003:02:14 08.48.25 AM, danny "dinkum" ;)
dawier@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>I used to make up nonsense chemical names: trantopotassium kenasofalate,
>erbium metaklasmite, pretonium alternus cletus cletus jeckyll
frodomasturbate....

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sound) percussion and drumset & extended electronic upright bass and treated
vocalisations].

    * imagine a meshing of avant garde contemporary classical, Free Jazz, No
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Laptop
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OBLANG: Christophe, Jan "IJ" and I have been discussing a lot of neologistic
and combining-form language usages. We all agree that the Japanese are some
of the best at it:

--- from emailage 'tween Christophe and me:

CG>[ . . . ]Gunnm is quite "mainstream", like Akira (when you think
>that manga like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Gunnm, Evangelion and Bastard are
>considered *mainstream*, you must wonder what they consider underground
>;)))) ).
HZ> I gather that. Oh BTW the English title of Gunnm seems to be "Battle
Angel Alita."
And _gunnm_ seems to be a Japanese neologistic "mangalanging" of _gun dream_.

HZ>>     "Currently"? It has been that way since the late 1960's-early 1970's
>
CG>Well, it could have been this way since the Middle Ages, as long as it
>still valid now it is also "currently" ;)))) . And the phenomenon is much
more
>important nowadays than it was decades ago :)) .
HZ  True. Even European companies are picking up on Japanese-style combining
forms in trade-names: i.e. the futuristic-sounding company name Aventis;
France's _Citroen Xantia_ and _Citroen Xsara_, Italy's _Fiat Tempra_ and
_Vauxhall Corsa_,etc..

HZ>> ever since Sony and Honda jumped into the global technoculture. It is
>> just increasing more so with Global Pop Culture.
>
CG>True enough.


Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;) &  lingua-mangler
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    "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language,
and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of
human comprehension." - Ezra Pound

    "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

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