Re: Conlang in-jokes.

Andreas Johansson 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?
Not quite the same, but my Kassi use a logographic script.  One of the
characters, meaning "good", is written with the radical "man" plus the
radical "field", kind of a parody on the hanzi "good" which is written
woman+child.  They're a matriarchal society.