Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Tatari Faran and Flames

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 6:02
:))

Good show, John!  Pronounced "yawbles," I'm sure.  Mine is a portmanteau
word for yack and warble.  LOVE the Swinburne.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Tatari Faran and Flames


> Sally Caves scripsit: > >> The only problem with it is that when I search for "man," meaning adult >> human male, it also gives me "woman" and "manage." You might want to >> fiddle >> with that a little. Fiddle a little, diddle diddle. > > God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we see: > Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee. > --Swinburne, "The Higher Pantheism In A Nutshell" > >> but yarbling over the most efficient way to describe them >> communally to each other is efficacious. > > I like to use the word "yarbles" as an affirmative, though in Nadsat-speak > (_A Clockwork Orange_) it means "testicles" (< "your balls"). > > -- > My corporate data's a mess! John Cowan > It's all semi-structured, no less. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > But I'll be carefree jcowan@reutershealth.com > Using XSLT > http://www.reutershealth.com > On an XML DBMS. >