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5/28/00 "How Centurions Used to Chat Up Barmaids"
Carrie Schutrick
Triparik (Schutrick, Carrie; Justice, J.W.; Knight, Shawn) - fictional language - 1998
Triparik (or Triparian) is the language of a micronation, an artificial country, and as such is a group effort. Most of the root words are from Romance and Germanic languages, though Celtic tongues may end up contributing vocabulary. Designed to be fun but useful, the initial joke was that Triparian was ''what Roman centurions used to chat up Gaulish barmaids.'' The web site features a thousand-word dictionary, a grammar, sample texts and the start of a primer.
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