Danslang

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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The kids at Newlin High have invented their own complex and growing language. Can a visiting linguist study and preserve it before the principal wipes it out for good?

Written by Hunter Nelson

Performed by Will Hines, Connor Ratliff, Alise Morales, John Trowbridge, Hunter Nelson, Amy Warren, Randy McKay. Woody Fu, Kelly Letourneau, Mary McDonnell, and Nikki Thomas.

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0:00.0	And all you hook on you, Coventy Don Veropa, Fomoraka Hezka Koganoone.
0:09.2	Are you Snihorakton, Danco Hezka, Sornasta?
0:11.6	Kabadhan, Kabadhan!
0:13.6	Can you believe it, Mr. Keaton?
0:15.6	You walked down this hallway a month and a half ago.
0:17.6	These same students were all speaking English.
0:20.0	Really just a month and a half.
0:21.6	Nothing kept buzzing Dan Harper, who knows, and finally...
0:23.6	It started small, just a few words at first.
0:26.0	And before you know it, they developed this whole language.
0:29.2	You call it Dan slang.
0:31.2	Griffinants, Nilo Rio, Danseuk, Duptak, Dan.
0:33.2	Now they all speak it.
0:34.4	Whatever their background, whatever their doing,
0:36.4	freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors,
0:38.8	they use English with features when they remember.
0:41.6	So, what's that in Cudansia, are you a guard, Arden?
0:43.2	I got an aga-yufta.
0:44.4	You know, I really don't hear much overlap with English.
0:47.2	Far beyond slang.
0:48.8	It's more than a pigeon eating or a dialect.
0:52.8	It is quite pretty, Malif Lewis.
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