Re: Conlangs in History

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Also, in one of the prequels, there was a story element involving a
> mis-hearing of "layman-aided death" as "lemonade death" by a young
> girl.  That's certainly
(Did a line drop out here, Nik?)

That sounds to me sort of like the kind of thing translators come up
with when there's a really, really untranslatable pun in the original
Galactic.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"