Joke languages

On YouTube, in addition to English and Lithuanian, some of CreativityTheEmotion's *Inside Out* parodies were subtitled in **joke languages**. These were often simple alterations of either English or Lithuanian, and only existed for humorous effect, rather than genuine translation.

Currently, LBRY does not support adding one's own subtitle tracks to videos; this page remains only of historical interest.

## Languages

### Esperanto

*“Patro nia, kiu estas en la ĉielo, sankta estu Via nomo, venu reĝeco Via, estu volo Via, kiel en la ĉielo, tiel ankaŭ sur la tero. (Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.)”*
―Beginning of the Lord's Prayer in Esperanto, from *Unua Libro*
*Main article: Esperanto on Wikipedia*
Esperanto is a conlang created by L. L. Zamenhof in the late 19th century in order to function as a second language for the world, an effort commonly known as "international auxiliary language", "auxlang" or "IAL". While it is far from a "joke" language, being based on a wide variety of European languages and having gotten a significant following including native speakers, it is included here as it has not gained a national status anywhere, and therefore, is not among the languages that Disney movies are dubbed in.

Esperanto has an official ISO 639-1 code, `EO`.

### English - Newspeak

*“times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling (The reporting of Big Brother’s Order for the Day in ‘The Times’ of December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to non-existent persons. Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.)”*
―Not technically Newspeak, but rather, a technical vernacular with various Newspeak words, from *Nineteen Eighty-Four*
*Main article: Newspeak on Wikipedia*
Newspeak is the fictional alteration of English in George Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four*. In the novel, it is set to replace standard English, or "Oldspeak", by 2050. There are two primary elements in the design of Newspeak: an extremely limited number of morphemes, requiring an extensive use of compound words, and a political ideology associated with the language, requiring both its own terms, hard to express in Oldspeak or any other language, and the limitation of what can be expressed in Newspeak. The word "Newspeak" also has a colloquial meaning of "any sort of term put forward by political leaders that is the opposite of what it means", not requiring a complete conlang to be built around the concept.

It is often claimed that Orwell based some of the features of Newspeak on Esperanto, given that he lived in a household where Esperanto was spoken on the regular yet did not speak the language himself. However, it is actually a criticism of the way extremist politicians use language, covered by Orwell in his essays prior to *Nineteen Eighty-Four*.

Newspeak was implemented in CreativityTheEmotion's website with the unofficial code `NSPK`.

### English - but it's *Cars*

*“**Woody:** YOU! ARE A TOY! CAR!
**Buzz:** You are a sad, strange little wagon, and you have my pity. Farewell.
**Woody:** Oh yeah, well, good riddance, you loony!”*
―From the end credits for *Cars*
This variety of English is primarily focused on another Disney/Pixar feature, *Cars*. In the credit reel, the Radiator Springs theater shows various movies, which upon closer inspection are even earlier Disney/Pixar features, rewritten so every character is a car. Similarly, the "but it's *Cars*" subtitles transform the setting of *Inside Out*, replacing emotions with various car parts.

It was implemented in CreativityTheEmotion's website with the unofficial code `CARS`.

### English - Yesn't

*“**Q2:** Ur mom gay.
**A2:** Yesn't u.”*
―From William Martin Joel's Urban Dictionary definition for "yesn't"
This variety of English is primarily based on a joke change.org petition to replace the English word "no" with "yesn't". In the same vein, almost every word in the language is replaced with its antonym with "n't" added, and character names are replaced whenever they can be thought of as opposites (e.g. "Vladimir Putin" being swapped with "Donald Trump").

It was implemented in CreativityTheEmotion's website with the unofficial code `YESNT`.

### Lithuanian - approved by VLKK

*“Kalbininkai pavadino hakerius "programišiais". Atsilygindami hakeriai pavadino kalbininkus... "kalbišiais". (The language regulators called the hackers "programišiai". In return, the hackers named the language regulators... "kalbišiai".)”*
―A folk saying with no clear origin, though the word "programišius" is no older than from 2003
VLKK, standing for "Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija", is the governing body of the Lithuanian language. As a prescriptive body under the auspices of the Lithuanian parliament with an associated branch checking for improper language in official realms and the media, its decisions are generally respected. However, some of its suggestions, most notably compound words based on Lithuanian roots to replace loanwords (known linguistically as calques), have been mocked and gained meme status, and more still in the same vein have been created by Internetgoers.

This variety of Lithuanian expands on the idea, also altering character names to sound Lithuanian yet retain their etymological meaning (e.g. "Riley", based on "rye", has been replaced with "Rugilė", based on "rugiai", the Lithuanian translation). As it eliminates loanwords, it is thus an example of a purist language, similar to Anglish.

Though independently invented, the idea of a purist Lithuanian is explored with Reformed Lithuanian, one of the many languages of the Ill Bethisad shared universe, an alternate history with heavy focus on linguistics. Unlike "VLKK" Lithuanian, which is based around modern jokes and memes, Reformed Lithuanian supposedly arose in the interwar period and has since been adopted by a Lithuanian colony in Antarctica.

It was implemented in CreativityTheEmotion's website with the unofficial code `VLKK`.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.vlkk.lt/konsultacijos/1069-hacker-hakeris-chakeris-programisius