PimsleurApproach language courses
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 17:35 |
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In a message dated 2003:11:11 07:51:09 AM, learn@philywinsbig.com writes:
>A goose down landing and anxiety disappears. You're in a far-off land,
>but things don't seem so distant. You've planned well. Confidence is on
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>A room service call later and you're relaxing in bed, sipping a glass of
>wine and watching the annual street fair on the local news.
>
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>
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>
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--- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* ---
Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, MangaLanger
http://www.boheme-magazine.net
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_
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