Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 2, 2002, 8:30 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: what fruit bat?
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Joe Hill wrote:
>
> > I believe it's called Tsortian. It is latin, yet with some differences,
for
> > instance 'tele' is the verb, to see. and 'porte' to go, therefore
teleport =
> > I see It's gone.
>
> I don't think so. Tsort is egyptian.* I'm pretty sure the language was
> Morpork's, especially seeing as no-one's ever successfully invaded
> Ankh-Morpork.
>
> * Which I've spelt with a lower case E in the same tradion as the Last
> Continent not being Australia, but merely being vaguely ... australian.
>
> > On the other hand, a much more interesting language, rat, has one
> > discernable word, rllk, which functions as verb and a noun. Meaning
'Sex',
> > 'to have sexual intercourse. Only, you don't have it, you do it.
>
> Well, the DOR's language consists only of _SQUEAK_ (or \textsc{squeak})
> and everyone... or at least Death, Albert and the crow are able to
> understand it.
>
No, Djelibabi is egypt, Tsort is rome.
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