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From: Colin Kline
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 05:55

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From: CKLINE@buc.edu.au (Colin Kline)
Subject: Jabberwocky
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 03:23:40 GMT
Summary: COOKIE suggests Jabberwocky "might" have been plagiarised
Keywords: Pidgin German "joke" hints at plagiarism

A computerised version of a Chinese Fortune Cookie generator, which 
randomly leaps onto my screen when I boot, gave this little 
"Pearl Of Wisdom" recently:

        Es brillig war. Die schlichte Toven Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
        Und aller-msige Burgoven Dir mohmen Rth ausgraben.

It looks like terrible pidgin german (neither of which I speak), 
and I fear my/our legs are having an elasticity test.

Could a natural German speaker/literati out here in netland put my mind at 
rest ?  Was Jabberwocky even partly plagiarised ?

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From: CKLINE@buc.edu.au (Colin Kline)
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Subject: Jabberwocky
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 05:55:24 GMT
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Summary: COOKIE suggests that Jabberwocky may have been plagiarised