Re: COMLANG?
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 28, 2008, 7:16 |
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On 26.4.2008 ROGER MILLS wrote:
> Kash has (carefully disguised) Yiddish "loans": schmuck,
> tuckus, meshugas et al...... I think someone once posted
> that "dali" was their word for "art". Of course these
> don't qualify as totally humorous COMLANGS.
Rhodrese, which is certainly not a jokelang, although it has
acquired shades of a freaklang, has one pun at least:
MERCURI DIES 'Wednesday' becomes _melcordí_ -- cf. Italian
_mercoledì_. Tolkien fans will get the reference.
/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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