[Vision2020] Dueling Languages (was: Alaska vote count)

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Debi R-S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at frontier.com>
To: "vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Dueling Languages (was: Alaska vote count)


> On Thursday 11 November 2010 11:24:34 Tom Hansen wrote:
>> Ralph Nielsen stated:
>>
>> "I think you forgot the 'v' sound, Ken. For some odd reason the Polish
>> language uses "w" instead of 'v'. So  should be pronounced
>> Murkovski, like another well known Slavic name, Tchaikovsky. All the 
>> other
>> . . . "
>>
>> And to complicate things even more . . .
>>
>> Just what did Lewis Carroll mean by:
>>
>> "`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
>> Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
>> All mimsy were the borogoves,
>> And the mome raths outgrabe."
>>
>
> On average, those who traverse to the poem's end can separate spelt from
> spilth, and are not so close to mean as to cling to the median and demand
> their road portion from the center, leaving for other travelers gravel 
> along
> shoulders.
>
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> If Jabberwocky were made into a movie, just what rating would it get?
>>
>> Inquiring minds gotta know.
>
> One suspects body language would rank above literary language, with
> undulations and ululations over perorations and machinations.
>
>
> Ken
>
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