Re: Uk-Ugh (was: A quick new project)
| From: | Matthew Bladen <matthew.bladen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 8, 2002, 18:36 |
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Friday, March 08, 2002, 6:05:48 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
AJ> The point of Ugh (I can't speek for Uk, since it wasn't I who invented it)
AJ> is that to the speaker it means whatever speaker wants it to mean, and to
AJ> listener whatever the listener wants it to mean.
Sounds like the Librarian's Ook language in Terry Pratchett's
_Discworld_ books... although most people seem to get the Librarian's
meaning pretty well.
--
Matthew
I suppose being next to a 300lb orang-utan is a sort of incentive.