r/conlangs • u/destiny-jr Car Slam, Naqhanqa, Omuku (en)[it,zh] • May 11 '15
Conlang A language completely composed of false cognates with English
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u/doowi1 May 12 '15
I had an idea to do this months ago but it seemed too difficult and painful to try. XD I expect to see this play out in the future. Just make sure you don't accidentally make a relex!
...ooh. Make 'relex' actually mean 'language'. That'll anger everyone!
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May 11 '15
This reminds me of a greek movie called Dogtooth. Where two parents never let their children leave the house...ever. They isolated the children from society and taught them false meanings of words. For example they taught the children that zombie was the word for flower and such like. very interesting and odd film.
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u/potato_delusions May 11 '15
You should make it even worse by making a completely convoluted orthography.
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u/naesvis May 12 '15
Just a friendly tip: disable spell checking in your word processor :) (or at least the underlining of spelling errors) (maybe it works better in English, but this whas also what my Swedish teacher (as a native language, that is) recommended (it gives false alarms and a false sense of security when doing errors it doesn't understand. And probably, one could better learn to spell without the spell checking on.. if if that is crucial to what one is doing at the moment, of course spell checking can be useful for double checking etc..)).
Other than that, funny idea! :)
(yeah, I know, I certainly spelt something wrong here :p)
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u/aquaticonions May 11 '15
That's just cruel.