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Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

From:Joe Hill <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 2, 2002, 8:30
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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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Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Dan Jones <dan@...>