----- Original Message ----- From: "kelley" <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:53 PM Subject: Re: lingua franca today
At 10:38 AM 1/14/02 -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
>corporate english? business english?
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>corpspeak.
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>Ian
lingua coma sursum
lingua hairpointupa? :)
Acc to the OED, today's word is Global English. heh.
perfect for what i was planning on doing with the metaphor:
lingua franca as metaphor=protocol; global english as metaphor=microsft
Kelley
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Well, little Billy did dream of owning English and charging user fees.....................
What will we do when somebody tries to patent a fully operational quantum computer and all the superpositions it can access?
And what about all the DNA computer languages of 2024?
Lets think................
Ian