18: Legend of Ziph
Language on the Map
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It’s All Greek to Me
- NATO phonetic alphabet on Wikipedia
- ‘Roger that’ on Wiktionary
- “The Slang Dictionary, or the Vulgar Words” (John Camden Hotten, 1865) on Archive.org
- Cant on Wikipedia
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- “School-life at Winchester College” (Robert Blachford Mansfield, 1866) on Archive.org
- “Autobiographic Sketches” (Thomas De Quincey, 1853) on Archive.org
The secret is this — (and the grandeur of simplicity at any rate it has) — repeat the vowel or diphthong of every syllable, prefixing to the vowel so repeated the letter G. Thus, for example: Shall we go away in an hour? Three hours we have already staid. This in Ziph becomes: Shagall wege gogo agaxoagay igin agan hougour? Threegee hougours wege hagave agalreageadygy stagaid.
- John Wilkins on Wikipedia
- “An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language” (John Wilkins, 1668) on Archive.org
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- “Mercury, or, the Secret and Swift Messenger” (John Wilkins, 1694) on Archive.org
- “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins” (Jorge Luis Borges, 1952) on Wikipedia