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2 total messages Started by Colin Kline Fri, 05 Mar 1993 05:55

#164

Author: 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 ?

Re: Jabberwocky

#168

Author: Dave Horsfall
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 04:24

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In article <CKLINE.16.731310924@buc.edu.au>,
    CKLINE@buc.edu.au (Colin Kline) writes:

| 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;

It's unclear to me what this has to do with mail (this is aus.mail after
all), but since you ask...

I first saw it in Hofstater's (sp?) book "Escher, Godel, Bach: The Eternal
Golden Braid."  All verses were in English, French and German.  Appeared
around 1980 or so.

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)    VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC     PGP 2.1
dave@esi.COM.AU           ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave    available

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