Re: conlangers of the world, create!

Frank George Valoczy wrote:


>> Ah.  "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
>
> lol...yes exactly so...who said this? I think I've heard it before...
It seems that it was a well-known wisecrack in the Soviet Union,
but I do not find it attributed to anyone in particular.  It is
also reported from India, Czechoslovakia -- and Hungary!

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