"One man's feast is another man's poison."(wasRe: reading (was French and German (jara: An introduction))
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2003, 9:14 |
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>"One man's feast is another man's poison."
taa-daa - en g0miileg0 :
faest0 bii s0l0 h0mii toxii bii paaraa h0mii.
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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!)