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August 15, 2005
The Ex-Soviet, Developing, but above all Fictional Nation of Molvania
I would prefer not to have to link to this website, because I don't feel it does the book it promotes much justice. I'm also here to promote the book Molvania: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry, a Jetlag travel guide. It's a book-length parody, in full Lonely Planet format, of former-Soviet tourism outside of Petersburg and Moscow.
From the section on Language:
Molvanian is a difficult language to speak, let alone master. There are four genders: male, female, neutral, and the collective noun for cheeses, which occupies a nominative sub-section of its very own.
(Ha.)
Remember, too, that the syntactical structure of written Molvanian can be rather complex, with writers routinely using the triple negative. Hence, 'Can I drink the water?' becomes 'Erkjo ne szlepp statsik ne var ne vladrobzko ne' (literally, 'is it not that the water is not not undrinkable?')
(Hahaha.)
Posted by michele at August 15, 2005 6:29 PM
Comments
just got this from a friend of mine:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/08/18/fashion/thursdaystyles/18mullet.1.ready.html
Posted by: GweiLo at August 18, 2005 10:26 AM
Fantastic.
Posted by: Michele at August 18, 2005 10:32 AM