J.A.R.G.O.N. and "Glorp"!

[Kriton Kyrimis]

MICHIEL:

> How about "o Ippeus Melas glwrpei palin"?

(For all those to whom the above phrase may look like Greek, a word for word 
translation from ancient Greek would be "the rider black glorps again".)

Well, if you switch the order of "melas" and "ippeus", you might get something 
that a a handful of Greeks might understand and might even find amusing. The 
"-ei" suffix is, the longer I think about it, the most appropriate, though not 
one that I would have thought to use, and the use of an omega instead of an 
omicron seems to me, though I do not know why, a stroke of genius.

Unfortunately, if this title were to be used, most readers (and definitely all 
young readers) would read the above as:

The <something> <something> <somethings> againn. (Note the two n's.)

Then there's the problem of gamma being a soft consonant (similar to the sound 
you make when pronouncing "water" in English), which does not convey the sound 
  of the "glorp" effect.

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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