Re: Ugly Klingon was Re: PHONO: lateral plosive

Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:

> en mem0 2003:03:25 12:07:21 g0g0, andjo@FREE.FR graeffii:
>
> >Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
> >
> >>     Okrand's Klingon is just one of many ConLangs that inspired me
> to
> >> use some capital lettres in g0miileg0.
> >
> >>     Futurist/Dada/Constructivist/"Concrete"\"Visual" Poetry-style,
> I
> >> also use some "other things" like 0 [zero /zI@r@U/] for the
> diphthong
> /@U/, 3r
> >> for rhotic schwa,  and  '  for singular, unaccented /@/s.
> >
> >
> >Does "Concrete" here refer to the material?
>
>     Nope. Concrete = Visual.
Ah. "Constructivist" and "concrete" made me think "Soviet Union"; concrete is,
weirdly enough, one of the few building materials I associate with a
particular country.

                                                          Andreas