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Jeeb-Ponk-Fwee

A new language of limited practicality
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Jeeb-Ponk-Fwee is an invented language, largely idiomatic, consisting only of those three words.

"Jeeb" means something very similar to "I am (or you are, in rare cases) a gigantic duck"

"Ponk" generally means "I'm hungry" but can often be non-literally translated, usually referring to softness and/or artifice.

"Fwee" is an untraslatable emphatic word, either imparting subtle sarcasm or emphasizing deep sincerity, depending on inflection.

It would be hard to translate the Bible, for instance, into Jeeb-Ponk-Fwee. But this haiku would be relatively easy (the challenge would be to maintain the syllable count):

A large hungry duck
(I'm kidding around about
How hungry I am)

You are welcome to have fun with this new language.

globaltourniquet, Aug 28 2007

Flanders & Swann "Happy Song" http://www.nyanko.p...s/hat_song.html#HAP
Similar nonsense lyrics, also with Po in the middle [csea, Aug 28 2007]

with po at the end. http://www.thegoons.../ying_tong_song.asp
[po, Aug 29 2007]


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       Baby talk?
normzone, Aug 28 2007
  

       hey po in the middle!
po, Aug 28 2007
  

       See [link] at bottom for another set of semi-nonsense lyrics. (Also with Po in the middle!)
csea, Aug 28 2007
  

       My understanding was that we didn't do invented words any more. I would think that includes whole bunches of invented words, whether or not you pretend they make up a whole language. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say   

       [marked-for-deletion] word invention   

       unless someone says otherwise.
DrCurry, Aug 28 2007
  

       otherwise.   

       Actually, this is a complete invented language. There is a dialect that includes an additional word which cannot be transliterated, and is spoken with a single glottal-stop fricative and means either "I have a thought I wish to communicate, but this language is incapable of expressing it" or "Help, there's a pig in my kitchen", but mind you, this is not the King's Jeeb-Ponk-Fwee.
globaltourniquet, Aug 29 2007
  

       This is just idiomatic.
theleopard, Aug 29 2007
  

       [jeeb-for-ponk]   

       What normzone said.
skinflaps, Aug 29 2007
  

       [I am-for-I'm hungry] ???   

       I had a friend who (whilst in a slightly abnormal state of mind) became a character called Pwee-Fwong. He discovered a small universe in the bin that he named Argon Fnitty.   

       When I first read this I thought it was bollocks. Now I quite like it. Funny that.
wagster, Aug 29 2007
  

       Since this language seems to be made up of four-letter, single-syllable words only, I'll give this idea "Blat", which means "I either approve or disapprove".
Canuck, Aug 29 2007
  

       Short love poem:   

       Fwee-ponk. Jeeb.   

       I'm totally truly starving. And you are a huge duck.
wagster, Aug 29 2007
  

       I read that as "Soft? Yeah, right. And I'm a big duck."
globaltourniquet, Aug 29 2007
  

       [jeeb-for-ponk] a new under the croissant thing! with or without bees.
po, Aug 29 2007
  

       -. fweeeeee weee weeee.
bungston, Aug 29 2007
  

       This is William Carlos Williams' "Danse Russe" loosely translated into Jeeb-Ponk-Fwee.   

       Jeeb, Jeeb, Jeeb, Fwee. Ponk, Jeeb, Jeeb Ponk. Ponk. Ponk Ponk Jeeb, Fwee, Jeeb Fwee Fwee Jeeb. Ponk Jeeb Fwee, Fwee Jeeb Ponk? Ponk.
monk, Aug 29 2007
  

       ponk. fwee.
Voice, Aug 30 2007
  


 

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