A Group to promote the world wide acceptance and use to the word ZALOP. ZALOP means ABSOLUTELY NO WAY DEFINITELY NOT NADA NIX. It is essential this word is said in an emphatic tone. Accents do not matter in this regard.
MailArt Martha, you can use ZALOP to say "no". Others will use it in other ways. It has "no meaning: nix, nada, nothing...τίποτε!) It is a Fluxus Word that Ruud painted on an envelope to Cheryl and now it has advanced to cult level! For me, it has become sandpo...cut from red sandpaper ;-)
'll be posting ZALOPs here later :-). There are variations on ZALOP in the discussions - for example ZALOPA - The verb of ZALOP which involves waving your arms around, a no that people think is a yes, ZALOPY which is the positive gender of ZALOP - - that word even has a fragrance, When it causes people to sneeze its part of the performance score :-)) - we're hoping someone will get one of these alleged sneezes on camera/video to add to the video's - have an EXCELLENT Friday everyone :-) XX
Image examples for the building of ZALOP City. Please leave your orders in the ZALOP City discussions. As the resident ZALOP Architect, and being the orderly type - wwhhhaaatttt! I would like the discussions in ONE place :-) X
Google started to index images with the tag ZALOP. Just try it. The first images of ZALOP are now collected. The first start of recorgnition of the word ZALOP by big brother INTERNET!
Dear Ruud, I picked up the most recent hand-painted envelope from you at the Post Office yesterday. Many, many thanks.
And to you and Cheryl too, congratulations on the continued process of attaching Zalop to the very foundation of global sign systems. What change could result grafting this new organism into the DNA of shared language?
Danke sehr, Litsa! I think this must be a piece of German philosophy; I have to get out my German - English dictionary and see if i get to the essence of it. Tschus!
After much research with my tiny dictionary I concluded that SALOP means in German the same as in French,dirty, unkempt also a slut when applied to a woman. The etimology may be french I could not understand that bit but to confuse me again it seems also to mean rough concrete in German. ZALOP on the other hand does not exist in German or in any other language I have investigated so far.
Superb Zaloporaroids from Grigori I needed to lighten up !
THANK YOU MMM :-) - Your FAB ZALOP arrived today - as soon as I have a reply it will be here - THANX! This is "E"'s stamp which will appear on the back of all the ZALOP envelopes.
Search engines are trained by the users of these websites. So we should start to search on the several Search Engines for the word ZALOP. Just by doing so, they will see that there is a demand. The result is that they will start to index the word within a few weeks.
This is no fairytale. This is actually how these systems work.
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Here's Pretty Lily's ZALOP envelope to Greece, too! Beautiful violet!
Oct 27, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Oct 27, 2011
McFloozy
some words just have so many uses. When it's that much fun to say, i predict it will dominate the languages of the planet in 2012.
Some say ZALOP!
Oct 27, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
MailArt Martha, you can use ZALOP to say "no". Others will use it in other ways. It has "no meaning: nix, nada, nothing...τίποτε!) It is a Fluxus Word that Ruud painted on an envelope to Cheryl and now it has advanced to cult level! For me, it has become sandpo...cut from red sandpaper ;-)
Oct 27, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Oct 27, 2011
McFloozy
Oct 27, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Oct 27, 2011
Ruud Janssen
Lots of mail from Cheryl this week!
Oct 27, 2011
Ruud Janssen
Received this collage from PC - Germany this week!
Oct 27, 2011
cheryl penn
Oct 28, 2011
yves maraux
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/50939575?profile...
very dérogatory in french i.e :not for me
Oct 28, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Oct 28, 2011
cheryl penn
Oct 28, 2011
Lancillotto Bellini
Hi Cheryl,
I got today your mailing... thanks for the nice card/s!
Lancillotto
Oct 28, 2011
Lancillotto Bellini
Oct 28, 2011
Eduardo Cardoso
Oct 28, 2011
cheryl penn
Oct 29, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Oct 29, 2011
cheryl penn
Image examples for the building of ZALOP City. Please leave your orders in the ZALOP City discussions. As the resident ZALOP Architect, and being the orderly type - wwhhhaaatttt! I would like the discussions in ONE place :-) X
Oct 29, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
Oct 29, 2011
cheryl penn
Oct 31, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Happy ZALOP Halloween to the USA Zalops
Oct 31, 2011
Nancy Bell Scott
Nov 1, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
Received from Cheryl Penn
Nov 1, 2011
cheryl penn
From Henning Mittendorf - Germany - MANY thanks :-)
Nov 1, 2011
cheryl penn
Who is this from - any ideas??? France is the stamp - THANK YOU!!! Let me know so I can send an envelope back :-) X
The Unknown ZALOP!
Nov 1, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Nov 1, 2011
oizy
Nov 1, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
A oui...ze speciale deteectif ou IUOMA solves ze mysterie!
Nov 1, 2011
prettylily
Nov 1, 2011
cheryl penn
Nov 2, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Nov 3, 2011
cheryl penn
Nov 8, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Lots of ZALOPing from Cheryl in today's mail. Thank you, girl!
Nov 8, 2011
Ruud Janssen
Google started to index images with the tag ZALOP. Just try it. The first images of ZALOP are now collected. The first start of recorgnition of the word ZALOP by big brother INTERNET!
Nov 9, 2011
andytgeezer
Haha! Good work Zalop'pers! First the internets then the Oxford English dictionary I think
Nov 9, 2011
De Villo Sloan
Dear Ruud, I picked up the most recent hand-painted envelope from you at the Post Office yesterday. Many, many thanks.
And to you and Cheryl too, congratulations on the continued process of attaching Zalop to the very foundation of global sign systems. What change could result grafting this new organism into the DNA of shared language?
Nov 9, 2011
cheryl penn
ZALIP
This word comes with a WARNING. Handle with extreme care.
ZALIP is a doppelganger, a usurper of the true ZALOP.
Inhabits his own high rise in ZALOP CITY from where he hopes to take over the World of Emphatics.
Fluxus Word given by Ruud Janssen (Netherlands) Meaning determined by Cheryl Penn (South Africa)
Nov 9, 2011
cheryl penn
From Eduardo The Minimal ZALOP Man Cardoso
Nov 9, 2011
cheryl penn
From Giovanni Bonnanno (Archivio Ophen Virtual Art (wonderful site :-)
Nov 9, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Danke sehr, Litsa! I think this must be a piece of German philosophy; I have to get out my German - English dictionary and see if i get to the essence of it. Tschus!
Nov 9, 2011
Nancy Bell Scott
Beautiful and snappy.
Nov 10, 2011
cheryl penn
No, the envelopes are NOT empty! I NNNEEEEEEDDDDD mail in them!!! Its just that the mail art envelope is ZALOP-ed :-) X
Nov 10, 2011
cheryl penn
P.S. Looks like my entomology also needs clarification - I'll get onto that ASAP :-) X
Nov 10, 2011
Marie Wintzer
Zalopolaroid and Quasi-Zalopolaroid from Grigori Antonin (made me laugh) :-)))
Nov 10, 2011
Mail Art Martha
Cheryl put your mind at rest, ZALOP IS UNIQUE.
After much research with my tiny dictionary I concluded that SALOP means in German the same as in French,dirty, unkempt also a slut when applied to a woman. The etimology may be french I could not understand that bit but to confuse me again it seems also to mean rough concrete in German. ZALOP on the other hand does not exist in German or in any other language I have investigated so far.
Superb Zaloporaroids from Grigori I needed to lighten up !
Nov 10, 2011
cheryl penn
THANK YOU MMM :-) - Your FAB ZALOP arrived today - as soon as I have a reply it will be here - THANX! This is "E"'s stamp which will appear on the back of all the ZALOP envelopes.
Nov 10, 2011
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Nov 11, 2011
Ruud Janssen
ZALOP traning the search engines.
Search engines are trained by the users of these websites. So we should start to search on the several Search Engines for the word ZALOP. Just by doing so, they will see that there is a demand. The result is that they will start to index the word within a few weeks.
This is no fairytale. This is actually how these systems work.
Nov 11, 2011
Lancillotto Bellini
Here's a link (Google) about ZALOP ...italian pages...
ciaooo!
http://www.google.it/search?q=ZALOP&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&a...
Nov 11, 2011