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Re: Trollspeak

From:charles <catty@...>
Date:Friday, February 26, 1999, 19:33
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> The Black Speech of Mordor we are told was a conlang devised by Sauron to > be spoken by all creatures that served him. And although we are not given > full details of the Black Speech, Tolkien does give sufficient to show that > it was about as remote from Cockney as, say, Mandarin Chinese is from > Swahili - i.e. not remotely like it.
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