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Re: Die, artlanger scum!

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, May 2, 2003, 19:43
In a message dated 2003:05:02 02:34:58 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen : > >> --- J Y S Czhang skrzypszy: > >> > Thanx, Andreas, for pointing this out ::poke-pokes Christophe and >> > I.-Jan:: you guys I don't think pointed this out when I sent you >the most recent g0miileg0 release :( or I am bein' forgetful... > >>Christophe? How come we never noticed this bu... feature? > >Well, I'm not even sure it was there to notice on the release we got ;))) >.I thought I remembered "a" for [V] and "aa" for [a:]... Or maybe I >overcorrected what I read like sometimes Word wants to do and didn't see >what was actually written ;)))) .
Ooops... I found 2 different _g0miileg0, v3rzjen 1.2, fraekt0 1_'s on my computer!!! (I gotta do spring-cleaning on this bloody box) One _v3rzjen 1.2_ has the "bug"... the other has "editorial notes" slapped into it --- the editorial notes are actually email quotes from both Jan and Christophe suggesting [aa] for /a:/ and [a] for /V/. ::bangs head on desk:: My bad... :} --- Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger 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_ = ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)

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