Re: Dune Conlang

"Dr. David E. Bell" wrote:

> Proto-Galach: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
> Atreidean Galach: baridit nehiidit beed gwarp tau nubukt.
> Ancient Arabic: kuntu sa'idan fi shababi
> Atreidean Fremen: kuntu saghidan fi shababi
This reminds me of the following bit of Syrianized English:

        Everytin you buy-it-in, the house-in-it you make-it-in
        "Everything you buy, you can make it in the house"

I saw this in the appendixes (now sadly omitted) to Mencken's _The American Language_,
which exhibited various languages as spoken in the U.S., often with heavy anglicization.
I remember with great fondness the Germlish word "Stiefellegger" (bootlegger), whose
"proper German" rendering was "Antivereinigenstaatenskonstitutionenspirituosenwarenhaendler."

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John Cowan      http://www.reutershealth.com            jcowan@reutershealth.com
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! / Schliess eurer Aug vor heiliger Schau
Den er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
                -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)