Re: NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)

--- "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> wrote:

> Philippe Caquant said:
> >
> > (I also think that the idea of making every
> character
> > included in a perfect square in much more
> satisfying
> > than having variable length alphabetic words. You
> can
> > sit before the character meaning "mountain" and
> > meditate, it's much harder when looking at the
> English
> > word "mountain", or at the French one, "montagne".
> > Chinese seems to give a direct grip onto the
> world).
>
> Absolutely. That's because all Chinese people are
> mystics. The ideographs
> they use for writing are actually morphogenetic
> field patterns that
> signify Platonic chakra-karmic ideas by virtue of
> etheric resonance.
> (Fields are square. Hanzi are square. 'Nuff said.)
> That's why they work
> correctly for any Han regardless of such base
> materialistic details as
> phonology.
>
> Non-mystics shouldn't even try to worry about it.
> It'll just make your
> head hurt.
>
>
> > So it seems we came back to the beginning of it,
> > except that this time, we won't bother any more
> for
> > phonetics ;-)
>
> Well, that's good. We only have phonetics so that we
> know how written
> words might be pronounced, after all.
>
>
> Oh, and before I forget, I think I owe Ray a Chinese
> recipe:
>
> Po'k Stuh F'y
> =============
> cu' po'k in li'o pis pu' stach soi saw . wet fai'
> aua . cu' unyun in li'o
> pis ge' con caw' . pu' oil in wok hit ril hat pu'
> po'k stuh f'y tu minit .
> aed unyun stuh f'y tu minit . aed con caw' stuh f'y
> tu minit . aw dun .
>
>
> (Clearly ideographic. Any questions?)
>
Yes, one: what do you eat at breakfast that gives you
such stomach troubles ?

But never mind. As the Chinese mystics probably never
said (but could have said), "La bave du crapaud
n'atteint pas la blanche colombe." (1)

(1) Toad's slaver doesn't reach the snow-white dove.


=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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