Re: Klingon and puns (was Re: Klingon grammar)

In a message dated 2004:01:04 12:34:47 PM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:

>Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
>
>>     Mayhaps the Ferengi stole them early Klingon time-telling devices...
>> might explain the depth of disgust Klingons traditionally have for those
>> big-earred, decadent _Kapitalische Uber Alles_.
>
>That's pretty weird German ... and it appears to be trying to mean "ones
>who are capitalistic more than anything else", which is pretty weird too.
    ROTFLMAO ::bows, tux tail in::
_UberDank ;)  Mein Sprak-o-Verfremdungeffektor ich ist_  ;)

    ::head hurts now - poetic mangalangin' German allows - oops! - _always_
does that to me... once made my German cinema studies professor laugh so hard
she barfed... after being in her classes for 3 years, she never believed me
when I mumbled something to the effect that I had "no fluency whatsoever"...
    Sanskrit is prob'ly harder than German to "properly" mangalang... (Pali
would be much easier I imagine)
    French, Dutch and Flemish _seem_ to be easier (this jury, judge &
executioneer is still outta lunch on this wild bunch) and
    Italian, Japanese and English a lil more so... (I also took Italian
cinema classes...fer 2 yrs. & worked in an university music library-archive where
very basic musico-fluency in at least 4-5 Western European languages was kinda
sorta "prerequiste")
    and
    much more so easier IMHO is auxlangy-like "Greco-Latin Technobabble-On" -
it just begs for it like a rubber-fetish masochist on his pathetic boney
knees begs a blackleather-clad dominatrix ... "Please beat me... beat me hard!"
{evil grinnage} ::

autobiohistory with just a hint of the polyglotism up my sleeve:

    In high school I did my damnedest to get out of English grammar crap in
my senior year... made a balls-to-the-wall, go-for-broke, all-or-nothin' deal
with The Authoritarian African-American Nightmare Teacher from the Depths of
Oxford, UK with an Eternal Chip on Her Shoulder:
    a college grad student quality thesis paper on James Joyce's _Finnegans
Wake_         or I don't pass English at all.

    I nearly didn't graduate high school . . . but not cuz of this deal made
in High School Hell, but cuz I was tardier than a sloth on opiates about
turning in my _visual_ arts portfolio!
    Literally, I ran from the arts dept. to the Arts Office to turn my
grimey, poorly assembled portfolio in 23 seconds from the dreaded "exactly"
high-noon Deadline on May 23rd, 1983 CE!
    The Joyce paper got a A+++/B+/C+ grading (arguement/proof/format-style).
Deliberately, I had turned it in about 2 and 1/2 weeks early to the shock&awe
of the above-mentioned devil o' a teacher, who just couldn't say anything
remotely resembling "English", who turned a mighty pug-ugly purple-like colour in
reaction ...     She had a severe nervous breakdown about 23 hours after she
finally graded my paper and registered the grade with The Pedantocratic
Powers-That-Be!

    Go Figger the 23, the Number of Synchronicities...


--- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* >Teenage Aboriginal Walkabout Turtles...---

Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang)

     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 and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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