Re: "Useful languages"

Dan Sulani wrote:

>Small correction to what I just sent:
>
>>    This type of verbal wordplay is sometimes known as
>>"Tom Swifties". There is a list of examples at the site:
>>
>>http://www.dfki.de/~becker/swifties.html
>>
>>This site also has links to other sites with lists of "swifties".
>
>I just went back and tried the links --- I couldn't get them to
>work. But putting "Tom Swifties" into Google turned up a number of sites
>that do work, among them:
>
>http://teenwriting.about.com/library/weekly/aa070801a.htm
Right; the links didn't work.  The "swifties" with language names were
certainly inspired by "real swifties", but I don't think we called them
that....
Good heavens, this goes waaaaay back-- are people still doing swifties? or
maybe rediscovering them.