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Re: Conlang in-jokes.

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 16:00
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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