Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?
From: | jogloran <exponent@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, January 2, 2002, 1:27 |
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ObConlang: is the Morporkian language in the Discworld series that
looks
fairly much like Latin actually Latin? (I can't remember the name of
by
heart, but I can remember reading about it, and, as one would expect,
it's
given a Discworld history, but not a real-life one.)
Tristan
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You mean the stuff the guild mottos are written in? Outside of the
books themselves, I think he just calls it "dog Latin", otherwise Old
Morporkian (sp?) but I don't think the Discworld has always been one
for linguistic accuracy, what with the place name Skund meaning "your
finger you fool" and such.
Imperative