e/Ptydepe

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has glosseng: Ptydepe is a fictional artificial language featuring in Czech playwright Václav Havel's 1966 play The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization. In Czech, the word has become widely used in the meaning of incomprehensible bureaucratic jargon, or newspeak intending to hide its true meaning.
lexicalizationeng: Ptydepe
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Czech
has glossces: Ptydepe je umělý jazyk ze hry Václava Havla Vyrozumění (1965), ve které bylo představeno jako oficiální jazyk jedné nejmenované organizace. Další takovým jazykem ze hry je chorukor.
lexicalizationces: ptydepe
Occitan (post 1500)
has glossoci: Lo ptydepe es una lenga construcha inventada per Václav Havel dins sa pèça Vyrozumění (1965) . Es una lenga absurda que sa tòca es dèsser un lengatge de ladministracion desprovesit d'ambiguitat e de sentiments.
lexicalizationoci: ptydepe
Polish
has glosspol: Ptydepe to fikcyjny język opisany przez Václava Havla w sztuce "Powiadomienie" (wydanie polskie 1966 ).
lexicalizationpol: Ptydepe

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