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Re: CHAT: duumvirate (was: congovernment)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 9:09
In a message dated 2003:11:23 05:52:01 PM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG quotes Paul
Bennett & writes:

>> >Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis, or else. >> >> "Deep-fried mutants, we ate the mutants ourself, or else"? > >ROTFLMAOWUFNMVHGWLDKFQPEO!
ruh roh... Ack! John Cowan has outdone my "ROTFLMAOSHIHLH!" ROTFLMAOSHIHLBHTIPIMPASFTMODDTSPDA! there... ;P~ --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* --- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, MangaLanger http://www.boheme-magazine.net 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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