Re: Translations: "Happy Holidays" and Language Quotes

In a message dated 12/11/2002 12.13.10 PM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>Joseph Fatula wrote:
>>
>>To have another language is to possess a second soul.
>>-- Charlemagne
in gomilego:

    haba numba duo lego, tada haba numba duo menta.

    /xa.ba num.ba du.o le.go ta.da xa.ba num.ba du.o men.ta/

    have number two language, ta-da, have number two mind.


    "One mind plus one mind equals a Third Mind." - William S. Burroughs

    solo menta ad solo menta tada Numba Trio Menta.


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    "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

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poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

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probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages." - Cullen Murphy
in _Atlantic Monthly_ (October, 1995)

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