The celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge really takes the cake.
Posted on February 22, 2010
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Jorge Luis Borges, whose writing is mostly beyond me or just plain whizzes past above my head, has nevertheless (as he always does) written about a most intriguing thing. I don’t know how he finds his subject matter. Does he live and sleep at his local library or what? Is he even still alive? (google says no… too bad. He would have had the most awesome blog, had he wanted to own one).
Anyway. If you balk at esperanto and it’s ilk (I confess to being in that camp… it’s a neat idea but rather feels like learning at least 10 west indo-european languages in parallel. I’d have had more liking for it if they’d cast their nets wider)… then I assure you that far more elaborate-and-therefore-assinine schemes for global linguistic precision have been imagined*.
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*believe it or not, I came across that link via Douglass Crockford (of JSON fame)’s site. Spent afternoon being bitter about XMLHTTPRequest not being a cross-domain animal. And was googling around…
btw: don’t you just love jorge’s writing?!
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