Lacs de Robert Smithson (« A heap of Language », 1966 – merci à Ubuweb):

 

 

Language

phraseology speech

tongue lingo vernacular

mother tongue king’s English

dialect brogue patois idiom slangy

confusion of tongues, Babel universal language

Esperanto Ido pantomime dumb show literature

letters belles-lettres muses humanities republic of letters

dead languages classics express say express by words polyglot

linguistic dialectal vernacular bilingual literary colloquial

Letter character hieroglyphic alphabet ABC consonant vowel

diphthong surd sonant liquid labial palatal cerebral dental code

guttural syllable monosyllable dissyllable polysyllable prefix suffix cipher

word term vocable name phrase root derivative index glossary dictionary lexicon

etymology philology terminology verbiage loquacity translate nomenclature designation

misnomer malapropism Mrs. Malapropos nominal titular cognomen patronymic title

misname miscall nickname take an assumed name misnamed so called self self-styled idiom

metaphor sentence proverb motto phraseology euphemism paragraph by the card grammar error blunder

diction solecism syntactical analysis nameless slip of the tongue appellation heading gibberish dog Latin

hieroglyphic neologism word coiner argot billingsgate pidgin English orthography terminology thesaurus cipher.

 

 

 

 

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