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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, March 7, 2003, 15:24
In a message dated 2003:03:05 12.42.30 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX writes:

>In that case, can we define a conlanger's challenge as creating a balance >between anachronism and anadewism? :-P > >And Hanuman Zhang can spin off a whole 'nother pidgin chaos conculture >based on the balancing of chron and dew (ala yin and yang), and we'd be >talking about how much dew vs. how much chron a conlang has.
::ears prick up at mention of _nom de plume_:: ::winces & shakes head:: Erp!, I do believe that g0miileg0 is enough of a challenge for me (at least for now). Thanx for thinkin' so highly of me ;)
>(OK, I better stop now before this pun becomes unbearably painful. :-P)
Please do. I am still wincing from the PUNishing ConLang DiLingo... ;) :P~ 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_ = ! gw3rra leg0set kaka! ! riis3rva, saIlva, riikuu, sk0pa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)

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