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Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 1, 2002, 23:12
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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