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...Your article "Harpin' Boont in Boonville" [Feb. 7] is an excellent object lesson in the origins of language. Semanticists and some religious scholars like to pretend that language was handed down to us by God, or that the Greeks, Romans or Hebrews had some magical formula for the creation of living language...
...only languages that have been planned and created ahead of time are Esperanto and various imitations of it, and they are really no better at communicating thoughts than Boonville's happy Boont...
NEITHER doubletalk nor a long-lost quote from Lewis Carroll, that strange verse is really an old familiar nursery rhyme. Its translation, and the history of its colorful but dying language, is reported this week by Los Angeles Correspondent Timothy Tyler. See THE NATION: "Harpin' Boont in Boonville...
...piked to boont in your moche geekin' on a motel?" he said. "Motel's strung, kimmie, but pike in the nook an' whittle a slib by the jeffer. Got enough zeese for a gormin' tidric. You from Belk?" We repeated our question, more slowly. He seemed to understand. "There's a nonch sluggin' nook ye can pike to," he said and gestured up the road. We thanked him and went back to our rented car, which wouldn't start. Finally, we walked the way he pointed, found the rickety New Boonville Hotel, roused...
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