Language for taxonomic names, redux

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Thu Feb 23 01:18:28 CET 2017


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:

If I invent some words that use English grammar, does that make them
> part of the English language?
>

This sentence contains one non-standard English flutzpah.

This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall
pluggandisp can be glorked from context.

--David Moser

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