Re: CHAT: Niven's langs (was: One language for the world)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 11, 2000, 6:54 |
John Cowan wrote:
> Well, they speak Wunderlander, which is a koine containing elements of
> German, Danish, and Afrikaans, roughly in that order.
Did Niven merely mention what it was, or was there any description of
it? In the Ringworld trilogy (the only ones of his books I've read), he
didn't seem to be too interested in the details of languages.
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