December 07, 2004

the man who ate dictionaries

I've been out for a few days. Luckily Scott posted the results of the Bobs, which I was following mostly because the entries were pretty international and especially because there were (as he mentions) lots of entries written in languages other than English.
Among the winners I was most taken by El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios, both because of the title and because I can read it. As far as I can tell, it's basically a collection of well-chosen quotes. Here's the Bobs' description of the site; sounds like everyone else is probably already reading EHQCD. Since my Spanish is rusty at best I'm still puzzling my way through much of the page, but sometimes I don't need to worry about Spanish, as with this gem that we all learn in first-year German:

Ottos Mops

ottos mops trotzt
otto: fort mops fort
ottos mops hopst fort
otto: soso

otto holt koks
otto holt obst
otto horcht
otto: mops mops
otto hofft

ottos mops klopft
otto: komm mops komm
ottos mops kommt
ottos mops kotzt
otto: ogottogott

Ernst Jandl, Der künstliche Baum & Flöda und der Schwan, S. 60

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Posted by Heather at December 7, 2004 09:56 AM

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