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Re: FTL - Futuristic Theoritical Languages (wasRe: The League of Lost Languages (was Re: Fakelangs)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Sunday, July 4, 2004, 1:14
In a message dated 2004:07:03 07:32:10 AM, treborjung@FREE.FR writes:

>http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html >may be of interest.
Yepyep, that's a well-done exposition. --- º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º º°`°º ø,¸~-> Hanuman "Mister Sinister" Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist - "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69} <A HREF="http://www.boheme-magazine.net">=> boheme-magazine.net</A> "Words, like eyeglasses, obscure everything they do not make clear." - Joseph Joubert "Poetic creation still remains an act of perfect spiritual freedom. Poetry remakes & prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed world." - Mircea Eliade 'The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather "opens things up to the light of Heaven" by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attuned to this flow, the sage need make no special effort to "illumine," for language does it by itself, spontaneously. Language spills over [... letting each stream find its own channel, fertilizing the earth, bringing everything into becoming...].' - Peter Lamborn Wilson, _Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics_ 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" - John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
>> maci caca ei debri legosetplex!
prizerva. salva. riceu. gomi-scopa ei risaiclo ! << English translitteration of above _lego junco _, "junk language": "Fight {Maquis/-machy} Waste & Trash Linguistic ! Save, Salvage, Recover, Found-Treasure-Objects-Look/Scavenge & Recycle!"