Jonathan Knibb wrote:
> 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?
For some bizarre reason I remember this being in the Fast Show. Though
it may simply have been a case of great minds thinking alike. Or my
memory slipping.