Re: HUMOUR (lingua vulgaris) Re: .com/religion

In a message dated 9/25/01 3:11:46 AM, dreamertwo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< LOL that *SO* reminds me of the time I tried to record the Babel text in
q~'u^pl! which is my most bizzarre little fankensteinian beast.  It was
nearly impossible to get through with out goofing something and then the
quality was horrid.  After all that work, that 'puter crashed and burned and
took my only spoken sample with it.  I still have notes some where, but my
sound bite bit the dust. >>

    OH NO!!!  Something similar happened to me a few days ago.  For my pidgin
experiment I was creating a wordlist (mainly Swadesh with some add-ons) on
the computer, but I was just doing it on a word-processing program (I don't
have Excel, or anything like that).  So, creating a side-by-side
English-Language X, Language-X-English list was very hard; I had to go in
there and hit "tab" a bunch of times, write out the thing, press the down
arrow NOT return to get to the next line, hit tab again, etc.  And then,
right when I had gotten to the end, my program totally inexplicably just
crashed!  It never does that!  I lost everything.  I was soooooooooooooooo
pissed off!  I couldn't even look about or think about for another day, even
though it had to be finished in two.  Oh well.  It's done now.  Vive la
technologie!

-David