Re: Conlang in-jokes.

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.

We do already have _imbuk_ a neutral or flavored clear alcoholic beverage
(80-100 proof i.e. 40-50% alcohol); the name is a not very imaginative
compd. of imu 'drink' + puhi 'alcohol'

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