Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 25, 1999, 20:44 |
"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
> this policy of language renovation was achieved within a few years so successfully
> that it is now impossible to find clues as to what these homonymes were.
> this policy was carried out with the very convincing threat
> of being sentenced to be eaten whenever pronouncing an homonyme.
Gack, and I thought Qi Huangdi (the First Chinese Emperor, who ordered a
general burning of books) was a dreadful tyrant! This is too much!
--
John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies / Schliess eurer Aug vor heiliger Schau
Den er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
-- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)