"art", "Art" & anti-Art (was Re: conlangs as art (was: Re: Wikipedia:Veri...
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 7:47 |
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In a message dated 2/27/2008 00:06:24 AM Central Standard Time,
jq_ithkuil@INREACH.COM writes:
> At least on the phono-orthographic front, Monty Python had this dadaist
> linguistic gem (I paraphrase):
>
> "Hello, Mr. Luxury Yacht."
> "That's not my name. I know it's spelled Luxury Yacht but it's actually
> pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove."
>
> --John Q.
>
Sounds like a distant cousin of "It's my own invention", from "Through the
looking glass".
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