Re: Internally artificial conlangs (Was: Re: T-Shirt)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 2, 2000, 1:25 |
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Why has no-one yet mentioned the two most famous con-conlangs, namely
> Newspeak and Black Speech?
For the T-Shirt, "Your language goes here" probably wouldn't be any
different in Newspeak. Altho it might be something like "Your
ownselfspeak goes here". Judging by Newspeak and Oldspeak, perhaps
"Speak" would be used for "language", and since these are conlangs,
"private" languages, ownself- seems to be the word for private, as in
"ownselflife" (being an individual, bound up with ideas of evil and
wickedness and perversion).
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