somniloquence

Its two dye four, its to trew.

I love this:

My favorite student lately is the one who wrote about feeling clumbsy.
I mean if he wanted to say how it feels to be all thumbs he
Certainly picked the write language to right in in the first place.
I mean better to clutter a word up like the old Hearst place
Than to just walk off the job and not give a dam.

Another student gave me a diagragm.
"The Diagragm of the Plot in Henry the VIIIth."

Those, though, were instances of the sublime.
The wonder is in the wonders they can come up with every time.

Why do they all say heighth but never weighth?
If chrystal can look like English to them, how come chryptic can't?
I guess cwm, qanz, or quattrocento
Always gets looked up. But never momento.
Momento they know. Like wierd. Like differant.

It is a part of their deep deep-structure vocabulary:
Their stone axe, their dark bent-offering to the gods:
Their protoCro-Magnon pre-pre-sapient survival-against-cultural-odds.

etc.
The Spell Against Spelling, by George Starbuck
(from The Argot Merchant Disaster)