On artificial languages: From Logopandecteision to Lolcat
In 1653, a Scottish wag named Sir Thomas Urquhart wrote a book on his plans for the creation of an artificial language by the name of Logopandecteision. The book consists in great parts of a praise of the language's 66 unparalleled excellences, and of rants against those whose neglect and wrongdoings prevent him from publishing this perfected... Read More
Votre altesse, je tiens vous dire que le testimonial que vous avez laiss sur mon profile est tout simplement trs touchant!
On m'a rarement dit quelque chose d'aussi profond et beau!
Plein de bisous doux pour vous
Osama Bin Gandalf
or: Why simple minds shouldn't read the Lord of The Rings
Elves and Ringwraiths, Hobbits and Orks, Gandalf and Saruman, Aragorn and Sauron, Peace and War, Light and Darkness, White and Black - that's the world of the Lord of the Rings, written more than two centuries after my death. Nevertheless I read it last week - as what you call eBook.... Read More
Le projet "Gullive" va tre report, car la jeune fille avec qui je comptais le raliser n'aura pas beaucoup de temps et celui ci va demander des conditions optimales. Je pense que je vais essayer de le aire plus tard avec Opale.
Unlike many people on this site, I'm not an artist, although I have always been patron of fine Arts in France, and as such the propoter of artists such as Molire, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Charles Le Brun. Some adulators even called me the "leader of the muses", like Apollo Musagetes. But there are certainly a lot of people on this site who... Read More
When I first read about this fabulous invention called "television" on your electrical net, I thought it was kind of a mechanized Punch and Judy show. I imagined that the spectators choose what play they want to see, start the television's sophisticated mechanism and then watch the play - or the news or whatever he wants to see. I thought television... Read More
j ai pas de tele et j en veux pas. C est comme les portables, des que je dis que j en ai pas les gens veulent m en donner un et comprennent pas que c est un choix... bref !
Every time I hear US politicians blather aboud God, I get annoyed. Some of them may use religion just to get votes, but some of them - and that's the worst kind - seem really to think that God is on their side. Would god vote republican? Is the war in Irak god's will? Sometimes I wish that the Allmighty would... Read More
grayness said:
How do you resist the urge to attempt to find what your fate holds via your conduit into our future world? Or is it your intent to change the events that would unfold in your time, and after? This presents a most curious aspect to me, since I reside in the future you... Read More
Whoever you may be, thank you for the kind words. I've been admiring your posts for quite some time. It's heartwarming to read such intelligent and thoughtful words. I just wish I could not tear up every time someone wrote me.
I decided to write an electric diary, what you people call a "blog". I will not write about the daily life at Versailles or the War of Spanish Succession - that's stuff you can look up in every history book. I'll rather write about how I, the Sun King, am perceiving your century. You're living in a world that seems like Utopia... Read More
I agree with you utterly. This modern Puritanism is like the Stylites of the early days of the Church: self-mortification and denial in the name of Virtue.
I feel that everything should be taken in moderation, including (perhaps especially) moderation itself.
Pour ce qui est de mon entourage, il vou le dirait, en gnral, ils sont vite sols, oui, mais dans l'autre sens du terme.....
On m'a rarement dit quelque chose d'aussi profond et beau!
Plein de bisous doux pour vous