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Doku, the South American language that doesn't exist

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:14 pm
by Dhokarena56
We assume that Wikipedia mods don't know squat about linguistics.
And then we test this. This page has not yet come into being, though.
"Doku" is nominally a Ge-Pano-Carib language. It has four cases, no noun classes/number, agglutinative verbs with voice, polarity, and tense, no tone, and a simple phonology. It is spoken by around 75 people near the Dok river (hence the name-"of the Dok"), near the Bolivia-Brazil border. Except that this language does not exist. I'll put it up on Wikipedia within the next couple days. We'll see how long it lasts, shall we?
By the way, if you don't know what some of this means, look it up on...Wikipedia.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:17 pm
by Dr. Sticks
I'm going to give it about a day

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:19 pm
by osprey
It could last longer, judging by other prank pages I've seen on there.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:14 pm
by Archaemic

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:25 pm
by Dr. Sticks

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:26 am
by Ibun
Wow! What a stupid pantsless idea.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:14 am
by MuffinSticks
It's awesome, jeffbun.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:30 am
by Ibun
I give it a 3/10 on the trolling meter, tops.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:06 am
by osprey
Full tilt! Pinball.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:47 am
by Archaemic
Yes. I like that game. I wrote the article before I became a hopelessly lazy Wikipedia editor.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:47 am
by Dr. Dos
A friend of mine made a fake band and it was up for a few months.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:02 pm
by Muninn
You should probably choose a real place to associate the name with because even if Wikipedia editors don't know about linguistics they might of geography. Linking to the real location from your phony article might also add some credibility.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:39 pm
by Doc Sigma
Yeah, I agree. A good choice would be Papua New Guinea, which has something like 850 different languages.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:57 pm
by Dr. Sticks
he chose brasil. also: deleted lol

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:49 pm
by Doc Sigma
he chose brasil. also: deleted lol
Oh snap!

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