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Ersever - A Language You Can Learn in Minutes
Created Feb 8, 2010Last Modified Feb 8, 2010
Ersever - Una Eguangal Ouy Nac Urneal ni Etunimes
Imagine being able to master a language in just a few minutes.
There are few languages that are
that sophisticated, including the well-known Pig Latin , and the
Gibberish Family of languages whichincludes such notable languages
as Ubi Dubbi, Oppish, and Double Talk.
Like these other famous languages, Erserver works by making some
simple changes to ordinaryEnglish. The changes are:
1. Consonant clusters and vowel clusters are reversed intact.
For example: "the" -> "eth" not"eht", and "star" -> "rast"
not "rats".
2. "w" and "y" are treated like either consonants or vowels
depending on their context. E.g:"youth" -> "thouy" (consonant);
"cycle" -> "eclyc" (vowel); "lawyer" -> "reyawl" (mixed).
3. When a terminal consonant cluster become initial, and is not
pronounceable, prefix "u-" tothe reversed word: "start" ->
"urtast" instead of "rtast"; "camp" -> "umpac".
4. When an initial consonant cluster becomes terminal and is not
pronounceable suffix an "-e"to the word. E.g: "clamp" ->
"umpacle", "bristle" -> "estlibre".
5. Words with ugly consonant clusters like "ght" are spelled
semi-phonetically beforereversing them. E.g: "thought" ("thawt")
-> "tawth"; "light" ("lite") -> "etil"; "trough"("trawf")
-> "fawtre".
6. Plurals and verb tense forms are made by first reversing the
singular or present tenseform and then adding the appropriate
suffix: "children" (child-es) -> uldiches; "followed"(follow-ed)
-> "wollofed"; brought (bring-ed) -> ungibred; "bringing"
(bring-ing) ->
"ungibring"; "running" (run-ing) -> "nuring".
7. An optional refinement is t o remo ve suf fixes befo re
reversing and then put them back,reversed. For example: "patiently"
(patient-ly) -> "untietapyl" (untietap-yl);
"happiness"(happy-ness) -> "yppahssen" (yppah-ssen);
"government" (govern-ment) -> "urnevoguntem"(urnevog-untem).
This has the advantage of keeping related words together in
thedictionary: play, playfull, playfully, playfullness -> yaple,
yaplelluf, yaplylluf,yaplellufssen.
A Sample Text
Just for fun, here's a sample piece of t ext taken from a large
corpus of English text collected byBrown University:
Sample text from the Brown Corpus:
The board said it thought it had gone as far as instructed so
far and asked for more information to be brought at the next
meeting. It was generally agreed that the subject was important and
the board should be informed on what was done, is going to be done
and what it thought should be done.
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