Re: Babel text in Spanzhol
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 5, 2004, 22:19 |
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In a message dated 2004:04:05 08:03:58 AM, cowan@CCIL.ORG writes:
>Shfanzhol is a language of North America about 1000 years from now.
[...]
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>Comments? Obvious blunders? There will be changes in syntax and
>vocabulary to come. And for whoever is thinking of making a joke
>about "mishmash pfalaplash", I probably thought of it already.
::jumpin' up'n'down in a tizzie:: DRATS! DRATS!
DRATS!
::squints beady lil eyes at Cowan:: I suspect that ya _partly_ came up
with this jus' ta get my response... :P~ ;)
Interestin' concept tho'... truly a mangalang idea!
Perhaps one fairly realistic "applied science-fictional" idea is to make
it more like Tejasian Spanglish extrapolated into a 1,000 years from now...
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