Languages

[zianuray]

The other day someone asserted that languages such as Quenya and Klingon "aren't real languages because they're made up."

I countered with "But all languages are made up -- either by the people who grow up speaking them such as German, English, and Mandarin or by those who think them up, like Esperanto, COBOL, or Klingon."  


Discuss.

Comments

[conscience.livejournal.com]

I always tease people about my weird typos, that I type in "Mare-ese".
Most people can translate it into proper English.

One of my favorite quotes is by Mark Twain: "I don't give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one way."

Same goes for speaking.

But then again, I come from both a very Northern way of speaking (my mother and her family) and Southern (my father comes from stock who settled in Florida long, long ago, which includes my Seminole grandmother's family)...I have both Northern and Southern pronunciations for words in a single sentence, because of the way I grew up listening to them both...and heck, I even say Northern words for things that make my local Southerners go WHAZZAT? ...a Scrapple WHAT?
I hear tell that me saying Scrapple or peh-cahn in a Southern accent sounds funny by my New Yawkah guy.
*heh*

Words are fun!



:D

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

And there are a few people around who can translate my gibberish into something understandable to the masses also -- I remember losing my words almost entirely while setting up at a con and from "box - five - place" my tablemate knew I was saying "The Office Depot on the next block has a box of 100 plastic bags for $5." She didn't even have to take time to figure it out.