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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