Re: Conlangs in fiction/movies

Adam Walker nevesht:
>
>--- 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.
>
Actually, IIRC it is mostly phonetically written Kentish.








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