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Re: Die, artlanger scum!

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, May 2, 2003, 3:48
In a message dated 2003:05:01 02:26:34 PM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:

>> g0miileg0 > >> ¡ morda en djuu, artiileg0 skaam ! > >> /mor\.da: en dju: ar\.ti:leg@o skVm/ > >> literally: "Death to you, artlang scum!" > >Writing /V/ as "aa" strikes me as weird, partic'larly since the other >orthographic doubles represent long vowels. Is there any specific reason >for it? Judging just from this sentence, shifting |a| and |aa| seems sensible >...
EEK. A BIG g0miileg0 orthographic "bug"... & not very "featural" or user-friendly either. ::goes back to g0miileg0 orthography drawing board department, raises havok:: g0miileg0 ¡ mordaa en djuu, artiileg0 skam ! /mor\.da: en dju: ar\.ti:leg@o skVm/ = ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!) hmm... odder and odder lookin' ... sorta more like a mutant Finnish if it was a polyglot Romance language, hehe ... I like. 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... --- 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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