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Rare Dialects Dime a Dozen in Neighborhoods Already Overrun with Diversity
1 Apr 2011
ASTORIA, NY — In Queens, the most diverse county in the United States, Hsilgne (pronounced: si-LUNG-nay), is just another language spoken out of 170. Local residents could not care less.
Lifelong Queens denizen Nate demonstrates the usefulness of a Hsilgne command on Steinway Street. Passerbys were visibly unimpressed. “170 is too many,” complained Marge Logos, “It’s a real problem when I’m lost and need directions.” Hsilgne, a dialect spoken ritualistically by modern-day Wizards, resulted from the syncretic union of BabelCon speak and Linear A.
This is just the kind of thing one can expect when one lets one’s children hang about with dragons. Obscure languages, ice falling and un-falling. Why, it’s as if life’s rules had completely passed him by!