Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 21, 2002, 19:00 |
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In a message dated 09/20/2002 10.28.05 AM, litrex1@YAHOO.COM writes:
>X-SAMPA is essentially a way of writing anything and
>making it look like you're swearing.
ROTFLMAO... I had that impression, too... and while I was tryin' to learn
it, too ;)
It sure can induce some swearing at times...
In a message dated 09/20/2002 11.27.08 AM, ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK writes:
>I would go even further: X-SAMPA is essentially a tool to make even the
simplest >thing look difficult.
Well, the in-built difficulty factor works in our favour: it frightens
off the
"oh-I-wanna-invent-a-language-but-don't-wanna-do-the-linguistics-work" types
:)
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Hanuman Zhang, "..._Gomi no sensei_. Master of junk."
"To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So,
since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile
of rubbish."
- Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE
"The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random."
- Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE
Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione.
[Latin > "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."]
" jinsei to iu mono wa, kinchou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou "
[Japanese > "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious artform"]