Re: COMLANG?
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2008, 15:45 |
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In a message dated 4/26/2008 10:25:07 AM Central Daylight Time,
conlang@AEROJOCKEY.COM writes:
> Just as a very crude (and non-PC) example of what I mean, a language
> where the word for "woman" is homophone of the word for "crazy", or (for
> balance :) "man" a homophone of "dumb". A more sophisticated (not to
> mention much funnnier) example would be Douglas Adams's description of
> the fictional work _Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations_
> from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books.
>
It's not a specifically comedic language, but the words in Klingon for
'woman' and 'not' are homophonous: {be'}.
There are many homophones in Klingon. I consider that one of its
disadvantages.
stevo </HTML>
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