Re: Just Found a Website That's Priceless

In a message dated 10/19/2002 11.32.24 PM, David DigitalScream@AOL.COM writes:

>I love this website for the possibility for poetry.   If you're ever stuck,
>just shove something in there.   <SNiP>
    My sentiments exactly. In many a way, both poetry and some forms of slang
push the boundaries of language ... and I find that most intriguing and one
of the
_hypercreative_ reasons why I am a conlanger and not an auxlanger.
    [I should get back to workin' on my conlang Creolego... it's been on the
back burners for some months now...]

>           And, yes, "I totally examined in the tree" is a gem.
    For some enigmatic reason MultiBabel is more fun than RACTER and similar
"smart" programs ;) mayhaps 'cuz MultiBabel is "accidentally poetic"  - that
it spews out the occasional, brain-stunning _objet poetique_ amidst the
torrent of banal verbal/textual diarrhea.

Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;)
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

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    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
                --- Blaise Cendrars

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