From cowan@ccil.org Sun Oct 22 12:57:26 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 22 Oct 2000 19:57:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 4514 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2000 19:57:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Oct 2000 19:57:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Oct 2000 19:57:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA18133; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:06:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:06:03 -0400 (EDT) To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: RE:literalism In-Reply-To: <8sv221+lb60@eGroups.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Alfred W. Tueting (T=FCting) wrote: > Do not look toward German etc.! Expressions like (good old) > "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapit=E4n" are a persiflage on > "real=20 > bad", very often bureaucratic/ridiculous German linguistic/social > features [...]. Me, I like "Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackspfeifenmachengesellschaft". --=20 John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter