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Re: Children's Shows and Conlangs

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, November 14, 1999, 1:22
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. -- "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