Re: History of constructed languages

Muke Tever skrev:


> I _do_ remember this. Hmm.  Let me look it up.
>
> It was in Acharnians; Pseudartabas has the line:
> "Jartaman exarx 'anapissona satra." (or: exarxan apissona?)
>
> The English version at Perseus bears a footnote "Jargon,
> no doubt meaningless in all languages."
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Aristoph.+Ach.+100
>
>     *Muke!
It certainly does have an Old Persian look and feel.
I guess OP was the barbarian language par preference
for Athenians at the time.

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