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WDFDspeak (Ostopian) - Conlang Profile   Advanced
Language NameWDFDspeak (Ostopian)
Language AuthorJon
Year Began2002
SiteWDFDspeak (Ostopian)
Broken LinkNo
Site LanguageEnglish
Language Typejargon
UniquenessNot really a language, but a set of 140+ words (expanding always) used by a handful of people in Toronto to denote feelings that cannot usually be described using English or -- where there is an English term for it -- to replace that cut-and-dried term with something more colorful and compact. Most words also have very deeply rooted etymologies. For instance, to study hard is "neatpass", which came from the pronunciation of the abbreviation "NPZ", which originally meant "no partay zone". "Begag", which means "to abandon hope for something" is a pronounciation of "BGG", originally denoting "bitch gotta go".

Basically, phrases are turned into abbreviations, which are then pronounced and converted into words - making the meaning obscured to "foreigners" and also providing a compact way of expressing things. A long road trip - a "super joy ride" -- would be turned into SJR and then pronounced "seizure". A "piece of junk" becomes POJ and transforms into the pronounce! able "podge".

Some words are unrelated to the disguised English expressions. "Drunken rage" means "to come in school/work late for no reason" while a difference exists between a "parTY" and a "parTAY". "Brain drain" and "Brain gain" refer to types of music, not relating to demographics. A lot of foreign words and phrases are used to add flavour and texture to this quasi-dialect of English.

Language SourcesEnglish, German, Nadsat, Korean, Chinese, Portugese, Icelandic, Finnish, Japanese, others (languages listed above are mainly for those from which WDFDspeak made direct borrowings). Most words are based on pronounced acronyms of English phrases.
Design PrinciplesRandom; on-the-fly with little planning and structuring
Interest Of OthersNot used anymore
DictionaryNo
EtymologiesNo
GrammarNo
Sample TextsYes
Unique ScriptNo
PrimerNo
Babel TextNo
Lexicon Size150
Submitted ByJon Chiu
Date SubmittedFriday, January 16, 2004
Date EditedThursday, October 14, 2004
Date To HeadlineFriday, January 16, 2004

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