Re: Conlang in-jokes.
| From: | Patrick Littell <puchitao@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 26, 2005, 4:17 |
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I don't know if this is something "everyone knows" or not, but I think the
classic hidden in-joke is from Quenya. The story of the island of Numenor
sinking into the sea, "The Downfallen", is the "Akellabeth"... I think
that's in Adunaic. But if you translate that into Quenya, you get
"Atalantë"...
On 8/25/05, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> Some days ago, I built a little joke into Meghean which I thought pretty
> neat;
> the word _patha_ "disembodied spirit" becomes in the definite accusative
> plural _phanto_, which of course has a more than accidental similarity to
> "phantom".
>
> (The plural formation by infix is somewhat irregular; you'd expect
> **_phathano_.
> The same pattern is seen in _guthu_ "death", pl _gunt_.)
>
> Anyone else have something similar to share?
>
> Andreas
>
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