Re: Ephphatha

In a message dated 2004:05:17 11:32:18 AM, Peter.Bleackley@RD.BBC.CO.UK
writes:

>What was the thing that first opened your mind to the exciting
>possibilities of language?
    Firstly, poetry...

 "When language and thought are in this way freed from their bondage to
description, they point beyond themselves to what is. This is poetry. And poetry
is, therefore, the highest, most human use of language." - Jeremy Hayward

    Kenneth Gergen, concerned with the dilemmas of identity in contemporary
life, sees the future of organizational science in the following terms: "the
most significant and potential powerful byproducts of organizational science are
its forms of language -- its images, concepts, metaphors, narratives and the
like. When placed in motion within the culture, these discourses may -- if
skilfully fashioned -- be absorbed within ongoing relations. Such relations
thereby stand to be transformed. Not only does this place a premium on reflexive
critique within the profession...but it also invites the scientist to enter the
process of creating realities....Rather than "telling it like it is," the
challenge for the postmodern scientist is to "tell it as it might become." Needed
are scholars willing to be audacious, to break the barriers of common sense by
offering new forms of theory, of interpretation, or of intelligibility."
(Gergen and Thachankry, 1993)

    Secondarily, science-fiction's _general_ lack of plausible _and_
interesting language change(s) and really truly "alien" languages/cultures (much less
poetically striking ones).
    It was sci-fi that got me intrigued with the idea of auxlangs... and the
basic (monotone?) tenor and rancor of auxlang theories and practises,
naturally, lead me to much more colourful artistic or "poetic" conlangs/artlangs (I'd
even say that engelangs and loglangs are more creative and poetically-charged
than most auxlangs.
    BTW has anyone done a loglang based on non-linear dynamic logic, process
logic theory or similar?  *
    OR, like, say, a language not based solely on static "being" - using
words similar to the forms of "be" [is, are, am, etc.] but also based on dynamic
"becoming" - perhaps _rogo_ from PIE _*reg-_ and Latin _rogus_ "extension,
direction" ; the root form of _ergo_, "therefore"... Does this make any sense -
what I am attempting, fumblingly, to say?

* I am already somewhat familiar with General Semantics and E-Prime

A Medieval philosophical apophtegm: _Omne quod recepitur recipitur sub modo
recipientis_ << Contents are shaped by their containers,  messages take the
meaning that recipients give them >>



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Hanuman "Mister Sinister" Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist
- "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
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"Poetic creation still remains an act of perfect spiritual freedom. Poetry
remakes & prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret
language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed
world." - Mircea Eliade

'The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for
territory, but rather "opens things up to the light of Heaven" by flowing with the
words, by playing with the words. Once attuned to this flow, the sage need
make no special effort to "illumine," for language does it by itself,
spontaneously. Language spills over [... letting each stream find its own channel,
fertilizing the earth, bringing everything into becoming...].' -  Peter Lamborn
Wilson, _Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics_

     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" -
John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

>> maci caca ei debri legosetplex!
    prizerva. salva. riceu. gomi-scopa ei risaiclo ! <<

English translitteration of above _lego junco _, "junk language":
"Fight {Maquis/-machy} Waste & Trash Linguistic !
    Save, Salvage, Recover, Found-Treasure-Objects-Look/Scavenge & Recycle!"