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Re: Terra Novan (language)

From:Gerald Koenig <jlk@...>
Date:Friday, December 17, 1999, 3:53
>Status: R > >I've begun work on what will be the definitive language for (Eastern) >Terra Nova. The Terra Novans are divided into three large segments, the >Easterners, the Westerners, and the Southerners, which speak different >descendants of English usually considered different languages, altho
This is really ingenious. It gets my Royal Knight of the Order of Mockingbirds award. Seriously. Now I have to break out my ascii IPA to get the full impact. Jerry
>Here's a (provisional) sample: > >Dis it's a samba o Eestan, de languaj it get speek in de Eestan paht o >de Hyoom Continen. It get descen from English, woun o de maja languajes >o Ahf an o de Sola Sistem. Eestan also get relate to Westan an Suvvan. > >/dEs Ets @ 'sa~b@ @ 'esta~ 'dle~gwEdZ EtgEt'pek e~ 'desta~ p_hOt @ d@ >Cwo~ 'k_hOna~ EtgEde'se~ fro~ 'e~glES wo~ @ d@ 'mEj@ 'le~gwEdZ@z @ Of A~ >@ d@ 'sul@ 'sEsta~ 'esta~ Olsu gEtre'lEt t_hwO w&sta~ A~ 'sOva~/ > >This is a sample of Eastern, the language spoken in the Eastern part of >the Human Continent. It's descended from English, one of the major >languages of Earth and of the Solar System. Eastern is also related to >Western and Southern. > >-- >"Old linguists never die - they just come to voiceless stops." - >anonymous >http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files >http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html >ICQ: 18656696 >AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor >