nicole perrin wrote:
> I was just babysitting, and the kid was watching an old cartoon called
> David the Gnome, it used to be on Nickelodeon about 10 years ago. At
> the end, I noticed that David says goodbye in his "gnome language." The
> word is <slitzweitz>, pronounced /Slitsvaits/
Sounds German-ish to me, especially with that spelling.
> or is it a one-word conlang made up for the show?
My guess is it's just a made-up word. I doubt that there's a conlang
behind it.
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