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Re: need help with microtone

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, October 10, 2003, 18:52
In a message dated 2003:10:10 04:33:18 PM, paul-bennett@NC.RR.COM writes:

>Don't appologise for having a Real Life. Once that starts, you'll >start the Gollum-like process of becoming a True Geek. Real Life is >what keeps the ring off your finger, so to speak.
Wonderful put. Can I quote that in a _muse-lettre_ I write, 0_o? You of course get full credit. --- º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º º°`°º ø,¸~-> Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69} "Chance is the inner rhythm of the world, and the soul of poetry." - Miguel de Unamuno "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt "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 http://www.boheme-magazine.net --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* --- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, MangaLanger http://www.boheme-magazine.net "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension." - Ezra Pound 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!)

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Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>muse-lettre (was Re: need help with microtone)