Re: Misspelling of the day
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 31, 2002, 7:20 |
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In a message dated 2002/12/30 04.23.17 AM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX writes:
>I wonder if yall's conlangs have the potential for this sort of pun /
>mangling. :-)
"Science" in gomilego is _siensi_ /si.en.si/ - almost like saying
"see-'n'-see" ;)
Gomilego - being a "sci-fi" conlang based on polyglottism, pidgins, creoles,
"mixed languages", slang and word-play - is full of these manglings.
Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist & Lingua-Mangler ;)
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
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"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.
"At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will pro
bably overtake the number of surviving natural languages." - Cullen Murphy
in _Atlantic Monthly_ (October, 1995)
"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
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