Amusing NATLANG (?) tidbit
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 7, 2003, 17:10 |
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A good friend of mine sent me this lil natlang (Finnish? or what?) tidbit:
> Millaisen parketin valitsisin viisiulotteisen asuntoni neliulotteiseksi
>lattiaksi?
>
>What kind of parquetry would I choose for the four-dimensional floor of
>my five-dimensional dwelling?
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Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger
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...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
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