Losing Languages--Sorta P-related

Dave Monroe monroe at mpm.edu
Sat Jul 29 05:19:17 CDT 2000


... a sorta "Losing Languages"-related site I came across some time ago
(although they still haven't taken up my questions about the word, "zombie")
...

http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/index.htm

Dave Meury wrote:

> The language cropped by the Procrustean bed of orthography and shrinking
> thesauri?  Like Pynchon in a square room, his novel can be contained in a
> rectangular stack of paper -- but the shape of the novel. . .
>
> Dave
>
> How about "reticulated-poly-oscillinear"?




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