| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 30, 2006, 10:59 |
On 30/06/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:> Hi, > > The latest issue of Speculative Grammarian > ("SpecGram") includes a grammatical sketch > of Chickenese. See: > http://specgram.com/CLI.3/05.lord.chickenese.html > > Although it is described as if it were a natlang, > I am almost convinced that it is, in fact, a > conlang. Personally, I suspect that the author > may be simply "feeding the chooks" ... > > Opinions?I thought you were going to talk about Chicken! <http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc072.gif> Anyway, anyone with any exposure to chooks would know that "bwark" (tho I've always spelt it as "brark") has negative meaning! (Tho mayhaps there's an Australian dialect of Chikenese, perhaps better called "Chookese".) But yeah, it sounds to me like a joke. -- Tristan.