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  2. Constructed action and dialogue - Wikipedia

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    Constructed action and constructed dialogue are pragmatic features of languages where the speaker performs the role of someone else during a conversation or narrative. Metzger defines them as the way people "use their body, head, and eye gaze to report the actions, thoughts, words, and expressions of characters within a discourse". [ 1 ]

  3. List of constructed languages - Wikipedia

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    Constructed language created for the residents of More's fictional nation of Utopia; one of the first attempts at a constructed language. Zaum: 1913 Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchonykh et al. Poetic tongue elaborated by these Russian Futurists as a "transrational" and "most universal" language "of songs, incantations, and curses." Syldavian

  4. List of constructed scripts - Wikipedia

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    Abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many others Tibetan: Tibt: ca. 650: Thonmi Sambhota: Abugida probably based on Gupta, a Brahmic script, for writing Tibetan: Unifon: mid-1950s: John R. Malone: Phonemic alphabet to write the English language, based on the Latin alphabet Unker Non-Linear Writing System [4] [independent source needed ...

  5. Constructed language - Wikipedia

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    An example can be taken from the way various programming languages make it easier to write certain kinds of programs and harder to write others. Another reason cited for using a constructed language is the telescope rule, which claims that it takes less time to first learn a simple constructed language and then a natural language, than to learn ...

  6. Constructed writing system - Wikipedia

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    A constructed writing system or a neography is a writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture like a natural script. Some are designed for use with constructed languages , although several of them are used in linguistic experimentation or for other more practical ends ...

  7. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue is usually identified by the use of quotation marks and a dialogue tag, such as 'she said'. [5] "This breakfast is making me sick," George said. 'George said' is the dialogue tag, [6] which is also known as an identifier, an attributive, [7] a speaker attribution, [8] a speech attribution, [9] a dialogue tag, and a tag line. [10]

  8. Maqta' - Wikipedia

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    He can "talk to himself", "to somebody else", "refer to something" etc. For example Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose takhallus is the word for the common theme in Urdu poetry of the state of pining for the beloved, plays on his pen name and the word firaq: Urdu: تو یہ نہ سمجھنا کے فِراق تیری فِراق میں ہیں

  9. Multani script - Wikipedia

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    It was used to write Saraiki, often considered a dialect of Lahnda group of languages. [1] The script was used for routine writing and commercial activities. Multani is one of four Landa scripts whose usage was extended beyond the mercantile domain and formalized for literary activity and printing; the others being Gurmukhi, Khojki, and Khudabadi.