short CHATter: Re: NATLANG: Scary Document
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 7, 2003, 6:57 |
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In a message dated 2003:04:06 03:37:21 AM, the esteemed Eamon
(robertg@KNOLOGY.NET) writes:
>As the wise Hanuman says: "Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage,
>Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!"
:) WoW!! I am bein' quoted again...
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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_
= ! gw3rra leg0set kaka! ! riis3rva, saIlva, riikuu, sk0pa-g0mii aen
riizijkl0! =
(Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)