USAGE: "strange lot aren't we" (wasRe: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 13, 2004, 23:56 |
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In a message dated 2004:03:12 11:53:38 PM, carrajena@YAHOO.COM writes:
>[...]*shakes head* We
>are a strange lot aren't we. [....]
eh 0_o? Who you callin' strange? :? <= tongue-in-cheekie
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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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"We don't read & write poetry because it's cute. We read & write poetry
because we are members of the human race. & the human race is filled with passion.
& medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits & necessary
to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay
alive for." - Robin Williams, _Dead Poet's Society_
"Chance is the inner rhythm of the world, & the soul of poetry." - Miguel de
Unamuno
"One thing foreigners, computers, & 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, & 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
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Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang)
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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...
...languages are "naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not
impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary
Snyder
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
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