Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 1, 2002, 23:12 |
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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.
Tristan
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