Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 17, 2005, 13:51 |
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Muke> Another thing I havnt seen mentioned here yet is implausibly compact >
semantics, > as for example in _Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ [snip
"Ix"]
Joe> I wouldn't say that's so much a feature of newbie conlanging as comedy
conlanging.
On which subject I can't help mentioning the sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh
Laurie, which IIRC (and it was a long time ago) involved Fry acting as
interpreter for Laurie, the latter speaking English and the former
translating into a comedy conlang. Each of Fry's lines was slightly longer
than the previous one, until eventually Laurie gave an enormous chunk of
text which Fry translated by a single syllable. Anybody else remember this?
Jonathan.
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