Re: Conciseness: was: Re: deseret conlangcon '99!

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> I don't think you can get any more concise than the language
> of the Dhjibbis, whose syllables _yop-, _yeep_ and _yoop_ are
> said to 'express an unfathomed range of esoteric thought' ;-).
Well, there is the the poem entitled "Blod", by the concretist
poet and novelist William Saroyan.  It consists of "a single
sound, written 'blod'".  So we could call this the only word
(and the only work) of Bloddish.

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