Michael -my poems can kill- Turner,
> Well, I was purposely trying to factor *in* grammar and
> phonology to make a point: no writing system is dramatically
> more economical than another, when it comes to conveying
> a meaning of any appreciable complexity in the languages
> that use it.
uh? Ah. Yes, the longest German word in which no letter repeats
is Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung. And the word "Manhattan" is
actually original native American and means "The place where
we got drunk".
I wonder whats happened to good ol' Keitai-l? Lately it's
all about selling ("I-mode Software Development Outsourcing
Services and Consulting One-stop Competency"), about bashing
("complete over-hyped sham") and totally off topic topics
("Tokyo's Biggest Christmas Networking Bash for Professionals")...
it's a Finland (or Norway?) based list after all.
Just my additional totally off topic 2 yen,
Juergen
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Received on Wed Dec 5 14:29:04 2001