linguistics stuffage.
Here's another random post where I'll show you some of the things I found amusing whilst going through my inbox which have something to do with linguistics (well, all of them so far; they're all from the CONLANG list).
I'll be editing and adding in more stuffage as I go through these e-mails.
An excerpt from a post to the CONLANG list by "J Y S Czhang":
OCLD (Obsessive ConLanging Disorder) is one of the real hazards of our game ("The game is a-foot!...").
Not gonna name anyone, but most of us who've been here for the past 2-3 yrs. know of at least one conlanger who is most definitely OCLD-afflicted to point of seriously impaired health due to long prolonged periods of insomnia and lingua-mania (in which - one time - he posted to the list like every 20-30 min.s). Several of us - highly concerned - emailed him saying that he'd better get some sleep and to get it ASAP. The Powers That Be on The List IIRC even threatened to block his postings indefinitely till he could prove that he was back to "normal."
And another post from the same person:
In a message dated 2003:11:17 04:28:59 AM, isaacp@UKR.NET quoteth & writes:
>> There is an IAL called Slovio, which according to its creators should
>be immediately understandable to all Slavs.
>
>Which in fact is *not* immediately understandable and sounds ugly for a
>person like me (L1 - Russian, L1.5 - Ukrainian).
LMAO! Yuri, my polyglot fiend-friend (L1 - Ukrainian, L2 - Russian, L3 - Yiddish, L4 -Italian... ack!... L38 - Vietnamese, L39 - Hmong... and counting!!!), informs me that he once was semi-fluent in Slovio ["My brain is not big enough to waste on it."]!
And he says Slovio sounds like:
>drunken, nasal-as-hell Kalingrad Russian grudgingly grumbled - and
slurred >beyond all recognition - with mouth sores, bleeding gums and > a case
of
wheezing sniffles.
> An ass-ugly language if there ever was to be one!
Then, there's this site, which I now love: Essentialist Explanations
From Robert Mills:
Hmmph. Clearly a wrong use of the -ee. Sounds like something Walt Whitman might have invented. O Camerados of the vast Plains!! O Bargees of the mighty Mississippi!!
I'll be editing and adding in more stuffage as I go through these e-mails.
An excerpt from a post to the CONLANG list by "J Y S Czhang":
OCLD (Obsessive ConLanging Disorder) is one of the real hazards of our game ("The game is a-foot!...").
Not gonna name anyone, but most of us who've been here for the past 2-3 yrs. know of at least one conlanger who is most definitely OCLD-afflicted to point of seriously impaired health due to long prolonged periods of insomnia and lingua-mania (in which - one time - he posted to the list like every 20-30 min.s). Several of us - highly concerned - emailed him saying that he'd better get some sleep and to get it ASAP. The Powers That Be on The List IIRC even threatened to block his postings indefinitely till he could prove that he was back to "normal."
And another post from the same person:
In a message dated 2003:11:17 04:28:59 AM, isaacp@UKR.NET quoteth & writes:
>> There is an IAL called Slovio, which according to its creators should
>be immediately understandable to all Slavs.
>
>Which in fact is *not* immediately understandable and sounds ugly for a
>person like me (L1 - Russian, L1.5 - Ukrainian).
LMAO! Yuri, my polyglot fiend-friend (L1 - Ukrainian, L2 - Russian, L3 - Yiddish, L4 -Italian... ack!... L38 - Vietnamese, L39 - Hmong... and counting!!!), informs me that he once was semi-fluent in Slovio ["My brain is not big enough to waste on it."]!
And he says Slovio sounds like:
>drunken, nasal-as-hell Kalingrad Russian grudgingly grumbled - and
slurred >beyond all recognition - with mouth sores, bleeding gums and > a case
of
wheezing sniffles.
> An ass-ugly language if there ever was to be one!
Then, there's this site, which I now love: Essentialist Explanations
From Robert Mills:
Hmmph. Clearly a wrong use of the -ee. Sounds like something Walt Whitman might have invented. O Camerados of the vast Plains!! O Bargees of the mighty Mississippi!!