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17 comments to "Invented Languages."
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Random Good Stuff
January 8th, 2007 at
5:05 am
If you are fan of invented languages - “Sigur Ros” an awesome band from Iceland might be something for you … their album “()” is in an made up language.
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Eugenio MartÃnez Sierra
January 8th, 2007 at
6:28 am
A new speranto, more worked and more adapted is Uropi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uropi
It´s very easy and it´s well constructed.
But if you want to travel around the world, the better thing you can do is knowing english and spanish and… mandarin. English is usefulest, spanish beautifulest and mandarin hardest :Þ
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Bryan
January 8th, 2007 at
8:13 am
William Shatner did an entire movie in Esperanto (Incubus) and Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat novels have the lingua franca as Esperanto. Also, the signage on the Red Dwarf is bilingual in English and Esperanto.
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Barjak
January 8th, 2007 at
9:11 am
If you seek for more funny constructed languages (conlangs), take a look at this link : http://www.langmaker.com
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Barjak
January 8th, 2007 at
9:23 am
I know at least one guy who used mirror-writing/reading : Leonardo da Vinci. Maybe he mastered Klingon, too…
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Paul Long
January 8th, 2007 at
11:09 am
I was bored out of my gourd in middle school. In my social studies course, we had to write down the notes that the teacher dictated to us. Every day. ZZZzzzzzz… I had started studying German, so to give me something to think about I translated her English notes into German and wrote it in cursive… backwards. I can still write cursive backwards, although I just do it in English these days. It comes natural. Oh, and the name of my blog is my preferred username, plong, but upside down and backwards–http://6uold.blogspot.com/.
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cybele
January 8th, 2007 at
11:15 am
I write in Mirror English. In fact, when I was a teenager, I kept my journal in Mirror to keep my brother from reading it easily.
I’ve been told that lefties have an easier time doing mirror writing.
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Aveday
January 8th, 2007 at
11:56 am
Icenay istlay, utbay utwhay aboutyay Igpay Atinlay?
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theVictorian
January 8th, 2007 at
6:52 pm
The Elvish is wrong. The E and O tehtar require long markers (looks like an undotted “j”). Currently it reads as “Nett-o-rama”, not “Neet-oh-rama”.
Also, as an “interesting” side note, placing the vowels above the preceding consonant is the Quenya form. The Sindarin form places them above the following consonant.
Yes, sorry, major Tolkien geek when I was a teenager. It’s over. Didn’t even like the films much. Not the greatest book ever or anything like that.
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Denita TwoDragons
January 8th, 2007 at
7:09 pm
Arhay-eeday-arhay-arhay, Aveday… *ingray*
–WotayAgonsdray
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Brett_McS
January 8th, 2007 at
8:38 pm
That Polish Esperanto guy must be turning in his grave: More people speak Klingon these days.
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aware
January 9th, 2007 at
1:35 am
more fun with written languages: try Omniglot.com.
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nerd
January 9th, 2007 at
5:57 pm
I must note (as a Klingon enthusiast) that the message, as posted in Klingon, simply uses letters from the Klingon Language Writing System (pIqaD is how it would be spelled with English letters). If you take those letters and write their English equivalents out, you would get “ng-e-a-t-o-r-ng-m-ng”. Whoever made the image is made an obvious mistake: the using the letter “ng” twice at the end instead “a”’s. The “ng” at the beginning is comparable to English “n” though. Translated into Klingon, however, Neatorama would be better said as “Dajqu’”, which could then be translated into the pIqaD writing system.
Sorry, but I am a huge nerd who hates inaccuracy. -
nerd
January 9th, 2007 at
6:08 pm
Oh, and to add to my last comment (above), the greeting in Klingon is not “nunqneH’” as stated, but instead is “nuqneH”. Notice the lack of apostrophe after my version: apostrophes are only used in conjunction with vowels (and H is not a vowel), and they mean that when the word is pronounced, the sound is abruptly cut off. There is a big distinction between words when the apostrophe is present. Example: tI means vegetation, while tI’ means to fix or repair.
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Woman Jooce
January 11th, 2007 at
3:21 am
The singer of “Sigur Ros†has a learning disability.
He’s really trying hard to use normal, human words, and is not singing in a made-up language, as so many have suspected.
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Dean McSmithee
January 11th, 2007 at
3:29 am
PEOPLE LOOK AT ME WEIRD WHEN I TALK IN MORSE CODE.
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anonimulo
January 11th, 2007 at
10:04 pm
“That Polish Esperanto guy must be turning in his grave: More people speak Klingon these days.”
The majority of the people believes that, but the Esperanto is a lot more spoken than Klingon.
See the esperanto online courses at http://www.lernu.net
More info:
http://www.2-2.se
http://www.esperanto.net
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