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In which the phrase "phonetically isomorphic" is statistically probable.
I am so disappointed that no one has posted this yet. It's small, but incredibly amusing.
Conlangs is a LiveJournal community for people who like to create fake languages. It's not as relentlessly academic as the Conlang mailing list, but it's still full of nerds.
With no sense of humor.
shatteredgloom makes a post about his/her new conlang, "Pak Chui":
A little bit about Пак Чуи
I have created a graceful and lilting language called "Пак Чуи". It's an agglutinave language whose grammar is loosely based on Finnougric languages, and whose lexicon is drawn from Inupiaq and liturgical Coptic. For its orthography I chose florid Bānglā (বাংলা) script. Like Russian, it lacks articles and the verb "to be" (though I am considering replacing it with the equals sign, whose tense would be modified by diacritical marks). It is gender non-specific but uses different pronouns dependent on race. Here are some samples.
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I think the rest is also pretty funny, since it pokes fun at conlang(er) stereotypes. But some of the members of Conlang apparently don't realize it's a joke even though it's bleedingly obvious.
Unfortunately, the moderator, Saizai, freezes commenting before anyone can commit any internet atrocities.
(He always does this. I think I'm beginning to hate him.)Edit: Need I mention that while shatteredgloom's obviously fake user info says s/he's thirteen, I think this is about as likely as me being the long-lost heir to the throne of Togo?