What? That "the pen is mightier than the sword"? But try to stop an Abrams
tank by throwing dictionaries (or Korans) at it.
    It puts me in mind of an incident back in the Viet Nam protest days in
DC during the Moratorium (1968?). The rumor ran about that an attempt at
levitating the Pentagon was planned, and the Pentagon had replied that
permission would be granted to do so but with the restriction that it would
be limited to only three feet off the ground. I'm sure some sinister
concentration would have pushed beyond the limits.

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>From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Politics & Macaronics
>Date: Sat, Apr 26, 2003, 12:21 AM
>

> This is a very late reply, but I doubt polyglossia or macaronic language
> can have anything to do with world peace. It is found in very old texts --
> I go as far back as Rabelais, but I am sure this is not the first -- with
> no visible abatement of international hostilies.
>         Its immediate implication , I think, is that language, no matter
> what national version it adopts, is a single, unified entity. No doubt it
> suggests other ideas as well.