Re: COMLANG?
| From: | ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2008, 18:18 |
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Stevo wrote:
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>It's not a specifically comedic language, but the words in Klingon for
>'woman' and 'not' are homophonous: {be'}.
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>There are many homophones in Klingon. I consider that one of its
>disadvantages.
Perhaps because (I suspect) its words were computer-generated, basic CV(C).
I think Mr. Okrand was not without a sense of humor:
hiQ liquor
QeD science
'argh worsen
'oy' pain
'ugh be heavy
are a few that struck my funny-bone.
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.
Isn't there a book/article "Women, Fire and other Dangerous Things" --
dealing IIRC with classifications in Australian languages?
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