Re: Featural code based on the Latin alphabet
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:04 |
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In a message dated 2003:09:09 11:08:21 AM, andjo@FREE.FR quotes Peter
Bleackley & writes:
>> [ . . . ] hwlinkvhv anvtv awveuowbs euohfv aiuotwveetxvhxviuh
hfeuowvtwxviuiunv,
>> euowr tiu teetk auauwvnbvhv akvenvht a hii euohfv twviutbeywlhv anvtv
>tbvai euotbeoueouhvinkv envtv hdvenbv.
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>And thereby the competition for the 2003 Andreas Award for the Ugliest
>Orthography would appear to be settled.
ROTFLMAO. Does this beat g0miileg0's mutant "NeoGeoFuturist" orthography
0_o?
= ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa!
! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! =
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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_