Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:47:50 -0600 (CST)
From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Re: 11.0471 imaginary languages
I don't know if this exactly qualifies, but Vaclav Havel's play *The
Memorandum* features an invented language called "ptydepe."
Briefly, the play which satirizes bureaucracy is about an office where all
memos must be written in ptydepe, and how a complete breakdown in
communication results.
John Bruni
Department of English
University of Kansas
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