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Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, May 3, 2002, 5:44
In a message dated 05/02/2002 12.09.27 AM, Jan (ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK)
writes:

>In Dutch we have a word for this: "Geuzennaam"; you take the (insulting) >name the enemy gives you and use it proudly as your own weapon!
What's the X-SAMPA for this wonderful linguistic bon-bon? ::wondering if he can appropriate it into Creo-Lego:: IIRC, in Postmodernist theory, this is called "appropriation"... the WOG (Wiley Oriental Gentlecritter) Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/ ~§~ Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head "I like the fact that listen is an anagram of silent." ~ Alfred Brendel _NADA BRAHMA_= < from Sanskrit > "sound is god[head]"/"god[head] is sound" anavriti shabdat => "Liberation by sound." OM ... Om Tat Sat... Tat Tvam Asi... OM

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