Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

In a message dated 2003:03:10 08.37.51 AM, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:

>Keith Gaughan scripsit:
>
>> No, I think that the fact that Ulysses, feckit--Joyce in general, is
>>a rather hard read.
>
>Well, that was one of the harder bits of Ulysses.  This, OTOH, is one of
>the easier bits of FW:
>
># Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in
># the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofarback for messuages
># before joshuan judges had given us numbers or Helviticus committed
># deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to
># watsch the future of his fates but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by
># the might of moses, the very water was eviparated and all the guenneses
># had met their exodus so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy
># chap he was!) and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and
># edifices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks
># for the livers by the Soangso.
>
>A few notes:
>
>Bygmester = master builder, as in Ibsen's play.
>messuages = the part of a landlord's land directly occupied by his family.
>sternely...swiftly refers to Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift.
>joshuan judges ... numbers ... Helviticus ... deuteronomy ... guenneses
>...
>   exodus: the first 7 books of the Bible, with side references to Guinness
>   and Joyce's claim that T.S. Eliot wrote "The Waste-Land" in imitation
>of
>   Ulysses (he did it in Switzerland, hence "Helviticus"); "pentschanjeuchy"
>   combines "Pentateuch" and "Punch and Judy".
>Soangso = Hwang Ho, the Yellow River of China, mixed with "so-and-so";
>   "livers" is "rivers" with a Cantonese accent.
    John, pretty, nice breakdown of some o' Joyce's lingua-manglin'....

    Thee bestest addvice dhat Aye've godden ista read James Joyce ALOUD
(praefurrubbly width a mangl'd Irish brogue).
    An'ta read Anthony Burgess' _Rejoyce_.

    Then it all seems a byte or more easier... even mayhaps infectious... ;)

Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;) &  lingua-mang(a)leer
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

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