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Koalang

Term invented by Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish s-f writer. It was language used by people in a totalitarian world called Paradyzja (in a book under the same title Paradyzja 1984). Because Paradyzja was a space station, where all activity was tracked by automatic cameras and analysed (mostly) by computers, people created a jargon full of metaphors, impossible for computers to grasp. The meaning of all sentences depended on context. For example, the phrase "Tonight I dreamt about blue angels" meant "The Police visited me tonight".

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