Re: Conlang in-jokes.

Hi!

Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> writes:
> John Vertical/Douglas Adams wrote:
>
> > "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much
> > importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the
> > Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called
> > jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a
> > thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks
> > themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian
> > "chinanto/mnigs"
> > which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the
> > Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in
> > fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the
> > names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the
> > worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."
> >
> [SnIp].... Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy
> discipline,
> > and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning
> > their
> > problems in Ouisghian Zodahs."
> >
> [SnIp]...> And the obvious question: has anyone else done this? :)
> >
> Now we have.  Kash could be _cinan tonik_ or ...toniç [,tSinan'donik
> ~,tSinan'doniS]  and _vis kisota_, all of so far unknown meaning.
:-)

Checking the lexicon of Tyl Sjok, I found that the speakers might know
the following three cocktails whose composition is unknown, but whose
translation is known:

    sin nwng ton hwk  [sin3NtVnh3k]

    'start to be able to blow repeatedly'

(No new vocab! :-))

**Henrik

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