Re: Conlangs in fiction/movies

--- 轡虫 <snapping.dragon@...> wrote:

> There's a book called _Riddley Walker_ by Russell
> Hoban, who "has
> imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age,
> semi-literate state--and
> invented a language to represent it", according to
> the back-cover
> blurb. Here's the first few sentences:
>
> "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear
> and kilt a wyld
> boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel
> Downs any how there
> hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint
> looking to seee
> non agen. He dint make the groun shake nor nothig
> like that when he
> comee on to my spear he wernt all that big plus he
> lookit poorly. He
> done the reqwyrt he ternt and stood and clattert his
> teef and made his
> rush and there we wer then."
>
> More or less, I'm sure I've typoed it up a bit.
Language-smanguage.  That's just someone poking fun at
Ozark English, or Appalachian.

Adam

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Machu 1:22-23

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