Oou
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Oou |
| Author | Sonja Elen Kisa |
| Year Began | 2003 |
| Language Type - by purpose - by source | fictional conlang pasilalia |
| Typology - morphology - word order | isolating OVS |
| Lexicon Size | 25 |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | No |
| Sample Texts | No |
| Primer | No |
Oou: The Insane Language is a fictional language. It was written by Sonja Elen Kisa.
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Description
Oou: The Insane Language is a typical example of a so-called freaklang. Particularly interesting about Oou is that it has only vowels, 11 in total. All 25 words can have multiple meanings.
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Design principles
- Make you go out of your mind
- Produce multiple meanings and weird homonymic insights
- Alienating, intoxicated effect - Go against expected conventions of language yet be fully function as a language
- Explore the connections between reality and surreality, meaning and nonsense
- Virtually impossible to understand one another: acts of communication become trippy idea-art
- Sentence meaning flows with your state of consciousness
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Sample translation
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"I take drugs", "I eat trees", "You help the sofa", and various other meanings
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External links
- http://www.kisa.ca/oou.html - Broken link: NO.
(Site author: Sonja Elen Kisa. Site language: English)
