r/LandoftheLost

Quick Memories of 1974 to 1976 "Land of the Lost" Lore

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Over the years since 2014 when I became the first person to decipher the Pakuni language and get it on my website, I have done some more reading into the background lore of the Land of the Lost TV show.

You can find a lot on its lore in online quotes collected in my webpages.

Land of the Lost TV show comes from the Lost World and Hollow Earth science diction genres like early 1900s American Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar novels.  The original concept of Land of the Lost was that a very great earthquake opened up the earth under The Grand Canyon and the Marshall family rode a waterfall into an underground world of dinosaurs and lizardmen and cavemen. Star Trek writers then changed this into a interdimensional portal transporting the Marshall family into a small artificial universe created by aliens. Episodes imply they eventually figure it out and become masters of time-travel. But it's otherwise a spooky sci-fi show like Star Trek for kids. But Season 3 the budget fell through so they could not hire the Star Trek writers and the quality dropped or changed. I like Season 3 best though.

So the background of 1974 Land of the Lost is Hollow Earth science fiction and Grand Canyon folklore and archaeology.

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The Grand Canyon is a popular all-American tourist destination that is somewhat near metro Los Angeles. It's also a dangerous place where tourists sometimes accidentally plummit to their deaths by standing too close to the edge of cliffs and lose their balance or get pyshed by strong winds or even nefarious companions. It is also a nationwide focus of both real science and pseudo-science like Creationism. Land of the Lost supposedly promotes science while also winking at Creationists and Mormons. Hence the prominence of the 1974 Land of the Lost TV show in the somewhat grim and odd parody flop 1998 movie "Bubble Boy" by Liberal Mormon writers.

In the 1800s, it was common in the USA for newspapers to publish fokelore-based hoaxes to temporarily increase sales. Totally unlike modern high-quality onlime  newspaper practices. These also served as propaganda. One typical hoax was that local evidence had been found for an ancient White civilizations that preceded Native Americans. The Mormon religion derives from such 1800s hoaxes and fictional yarns. Mystical Hollow Earth civilizations tales mixed European and Native American and West African folklore and featured lizardmen and insectoid Martians (later a la Percivall Lowell) and Atlantean ascended  masters and other later-day fairyland denizens. People in the 1800s apparently believed in such things, the mythical heroes and villains of their imagined history and prehistory, modern-day Hercules'es and Hera's.

( It was thus that I drew from such texts and modern paleontology for texts that I collected and translated into the Pakuni language or planned on maybe translating into it. )

The whole 1974 show also makes for an interesting contrast with the 1930s movies "Babes in Toyland" with beloved comedy duo hero tricksters Laurel and Hardy and the forgotten flop Wizard of Oz -imitator, Shirley Temple's own bizaare fantasy masterpiece "The Blue Bird".

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So far as I know, the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature of Stith Thompson has yet yo be exaustively applied by professional s nor amateurs to 1974 Land of the Lost nor a million other pop culture works. But it might in 100 or 500 years when Nonsensical Western Taboos and Double-Standards no longer protect it from professional scientific attention. Until then, fans are stuck with what they can find on their own or gather from Western science-fiction and fairy tale non-academic writers.

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In real life, the Grand Canyon only has a little ancient Native American ruins in it. Nothing like the nearby grand ruins of the Cave-Dwellers and Chaco Canyon pueblo cities all of c 1000 AD, 400 years before Columbus and Montezuma and Atahualpa.  Unfortunately, yet interestingly, these have not been generally accessible to the public ever and are probably dangerous to hike to them. Native American myths and folklore within the USA and across the New World tell of The Bigfoot and Stick Indians and Windigo gods who preceded humanity in Creation but where rejected by the creator gods and became near-and-distant forest-dwelling cannibal humanoid or human-esque rivals and helpers of humans. Whatever modern form exists of these 1600s and pre-1492 beliefs, is always much altered by time and transformed into fairy tale boogeymen within a Christian framework. Yet, originally they were  serious and dangerous gods, like 1800s fairies vs Pre-Christian European gods and satyrs.

But Bigfoots-like folklore humanoids typically lived "far over there" yet often came to visit. They did not live deep underground nor high in the sky nor under lakes, though in folklore and beliefs and  ancient times, these places were all related and contained a similar population of gods and ghosts and such.

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Also notable to modern and recent insectoid UFO alien appearance is the ancient and universal association of the gods with bugs. Which is maybe a practical thing as it justifies tiny shrines where gods may visit and associates the gods with the two main non-human sizes:  They were also associated with giants.

The folklore association of bugs and inhabitants of the moon and planets goes back in the West to the Roman Empire c 200s BC to 400s AD, as in the book Lucian's True History, admittedly a collection of interesting and wise yet ignorant whoppers. Which is likewise a half-wise characterization of all ancient myths and histories.

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Images:

Here is just a collection of books and movies that rradily came to mind. Note that they are all in English, though not because the past 20 years has seen me remiss in learning and reading extensively and understandingly in the modern world's major and minor languages of science and scholarship, as well as studying and working with all relevant local languages. This needs be said to the bafflement of recent certain naysayers and illiterati and calumniators encounted by me online and lodging at me their skepticism and jeers in place of my preferred and accustomed thanks. However, to further satisfy these sorts of suspicious and people-esque Internet Trolls, I will include in ultra-penultimate position a favorite bilingual book of Creek Tales, New Fire, relevant to the above discussion by way of lizardmen and wise triumphant tricksters.

Quick History of Pakuni Language Decipherment Efforts 1974 to 2026

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Here's a lot more on the Pakuni language and some others like The Lord of the Rings languages. I will enclose the decipherment history part between two lines of parentheses:

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( Images from Season 3 episode "Hot Air Artist". )

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COMMENT BY AN INVENTED LANGUAGE POET:

Some comments.

1. Dicynodonts are not dinosaurs, they're synapsids. Entirely different branch of the tree: mammals are all synapsids, reptiles and birds aren't.

2. There's a snipping tool that comes packaged with all modern windows OS that makes for much more legible images than just taking multiple screenshots of a page with your phone. Alternatively, google slides works fine, even if the app is a pain in the ass.

3. Ease up on the links: if the focus of this post is "I made a name for a cool synapsid", focus on the cool synapsids - you can just leave a single link to your blog / to a relevant post at the end, and maybe spend the space on names for some other cool synapsids - what's a gorgonopsid called?

4. Why are there random numbers scattered through this post? I presume they have some meaning to you, but they don't mean anything to anyone reading them.

5. It'd definitely help everyone if you used \[intralinear glossing\](https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php) - like the IPA, it makes it a lot easier for readers to know exactly what you're talking about. Wikipedia has a huge \[list of abbreviations\](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\\\_of\\\_glossing\\\_abbreviations)

If this was written as

"Ino eguga meni koga sawosi."

day this 1p FUT.kill dicynodont(taboo)

"Today, we will hunt a dicynodont"

using something like \[gloss my gloss\](https://neonnaut.github.io/), it's way easier to parse.

6. Your language seems to have a 1-1 syntax correspondence with English, sans the fact that future tense is an affix. You might want to start adding things like clusivity and shaking up the word order.

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MY REPLY :

Thank-you. Replies to your replies, with many further insights by me :

1. I'm using the word "dinosaur" in a less technical amd more vernacular manner.

2. I might do this.

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3. Okay. But this is also my maybe first or second-since-2020 presentation of my 2014 decipherment of the 1974 Land of the Lost kids TV show's conlang, Pakuni, the first conlang on TV or in movies, of which Klingon is a 1980s imitation. Nobody deciphered it and got it online before me. Which all imitated the 1970s American pop culture phenomenon of Lord of the Rings books which I recently read about on the Quora website.

They hired UCLA Linguistics Professor Victoria Fromkin to make the language and it's very simple yet has some neat features, notably speech errors discovered by me and also homorganic nasals mentioned by her in 1974 interviews.

I see this conlang as World Heritage that should be available to all for free.

I have a link to the webpage about new Pakuni language dinosaur names by me and a link to the homepage and links list of my websites. However, I thought I'd also share also core links presenting Fromkin's 1974 Pakuni language because I might never otherwise get the opportunity.

I thought this selection was sufficient.

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Tulane University Mayanologist and Linguistics (?) Professor Marc Zender told me around 2018 that he deciphered the Pakuni language in maybe the 1990s but never got his decipherment published nor free online, nor has he since. He seemed maybe believable to me.

Minor Esperantist Thomas Alexander in 2018 published a decipherment contribution in the Language Creation Society online magazine but I remember it being not a full decipherment at all and rather unskilled. He told me he had made it some years before 2018, if I remember now 8 years hence.

Nels Olsen has had a website (Pop Apostle) extensive decipherment contribution that I maybe referenced but I remember it was not very well done and that my decipherment and interlinear glossed corpus far exceeded his decipherment contribution. Nels Olsen maybe made that webpage decipherment contribution in 2002 or so, I forget offhand.

I have read of a few other efforts to document and decipher the 1974 to 1976 Pakuni language, and probably there were thousands or millions over the years. But without professional Language Scientist skills, only me and maybe Zender certainly accomplished much.

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I have much studied, since 2006, the 1800s AD and 1900s AD and other decipherments of ancient languages and they also faced most tragic and ignorant resistance, as have I over the years. Thus is progress always opposed by the careless and jealous and pathetically mediocre and tyrannical (power-mad, bad with power), resulting in various manifestations of incompetence throughout society and all history.

Fortunately, the past 20 years I have been a good decipherer of famous movie and TV conlangs and kindly collected and encouraged and helped decipherment contributions and accounts of their study from all over the world. But mostly for 2001 Marc Okrand Atlantean language as there's been almost no interest anywhere in the Pakuni language though people about 50 now in the USA almost all remember the show fondly. And so movie (and all other) conlangs become long-forgotten and never-deciphered if discouragers have their way. Between 2014 and 2026, I likewise discovered pseudo?-conlangs in the 1930s King Kong and HG Haggard s She movies ---- King Kong is a very famous movie yet nobody talks about its conlangs anywhere online nor in the academic nor non academic literature so far as I know. These movies and the pseudo conlangs of the Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction and fantasy books of 1905 to the 1970s not doubt inspired Oxford Professor JRR Tolkien and the less-known U Wisconsin at Madison Professor MAR Barker.

( I really suspect that MAR Barker was otherwise a most notable jolly prankster though it is possible he actually made some significant errors in grim folkloric matters. I actually know his work well as I am 1 of 5 experts worldwide in the Klamath and Modoc languages of north California and Oregon, which he deciphered for his PhD from UC Berkeley, USA's best university, in the 1960s. If he actually did any wrong, it is a special heartbreak to myself yet seems often presented out of historic context. )

Many major movie conlang decipherments have been accomplished by skilled fans since 2001 of which I was not involved, happily, though I did study them afterward. I am now deciphering the 2018 and 2020 David Peterson Yulish conlang, a lesser and more family-friendly media- JRR Tolkien conlangs imitation or comparable of his, alongside and dwarfed by his Game of Thrones TV series conlangs Dothraki and High Valyrian and its logographic writing system of further sub-typology forgotten by me. Maybe I remember that it is like Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing but syllabic, probably like Hittite Hieroglyphic and lacking in 5 or so sign alternatives per CV syllabogram value, instead having a mere 1 alternative.

Otherwise, I thought this selection sufficient for my time and energy and the expectations and requirements of this and other Reddit groups.

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4. These are link numbers from when these links are listed chronologically instead of typologically. This is probably explained on my website homepage.

Homepage and links page of my two major websites:

"Any Language at All" and "Navi Dothraki" :

Blog / Website Link:

http://anylanguageatall411.blogspot.com/2015/04/guide-to-any-language-at-all-website.html?view=flipcard

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5. I read the group requirements and thought the post glossed the words and samples sufficiently.

If I remember:

"Today, we will ))gill(( a dicynodont dinosaur."

INO-EGUGA this-day, noun

MENI we / 1.PL, pronoun

KO-GA Future-))gill((, verb

INEBI\*\* a dicynodont dinosaur, noun

SAWO-SA\* Hunter's taboo -Adj

MEBU\*. Plan, sentence-final particle?

: Pakuni is pronounced like Spanish or Classical Latin yet without short vowels.

: Where grammatical or odd glosses are capitalized.

: Where )) (( surrounds a euphemism. The intended word rhymes with gill but is more like krill without the R or the word \*LLI\_K spelled bacwards with the inserted \_ removed.

I prefer to gloss it this way if possible because it saves me time and is easier and makes it clearer which word is which.

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6. :) If I remember, famous and prolific UCLA Professor Linfuistics Victoria Fromkin made this language simple like this, even without the sentence-final particles I added. If I remember, it's a mix of English and the Kwa branch of languages related to Akan in West Africa. It seems she chose these as she was recently studying them but there also might be something more to it, like agreeable or disagreeable social commentary. You d have to study Victoria Fromkin and her era and peers as I have. Nigeria in West Africa also notably has the largest population of any African country.

Alas, she herself reflects an era (on-going in many ways and in certain persons) where conlangs in TV or movies were treated with about as much respect and seriousness and Social Justice as non-English languages and peoples were treated, or the teaching and accessibility of these languages for study in the USA or outside. This all follows on, and is often very tragically ignorant of, 1800s global policies and ideas.

So she made a simplified version of the major Akan language of Ghana in West Africa but she never published nor put online its grammar and dictionary, nor published it before the Internet, nor sent copies of it to universities. She also said very little about the language in interviews. This was her big opportnuity to educate the fascinated American public and she locked it away in Academia, in her own Ivory Tower, chained up in a building owned by the State Government of California and inaccessible to the public and beyond the reasonable objections of citizens of the United States of America. And without sufficient oversight regarding morality or responsibility and without normal human community checks against mishandling.

Which is Cosmically fitting in some notable ways.

I am certain The Puritan Fathers of Massachusetts would be most pleased to see what has become of their grand project..

But I seek for the freedom of the Pakuni language and all captives and individuals like it, like California's own Britney Spears.

Yet you also have to see the Pakuni language and "her other experiments" from her perspective and that of her Greatest Generation peers. She herself did a lot toward making all languages more accessible otherwise, as did UCLA from c 1955 to 1999. But at what price?

She clearly saw the Pakuni language not like some important dying or ancient-and-rediscovered language but as an unpopular toy, perhaps awaiting outside interest like that of the fan-written book Ruth S. Noel’s The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth (1980) about the invented languages of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books.

What did Tolkien do in his lifetime to promote and explain his conlangs (invented languages) ? Almost nothing. He even called them "a secret vice", though I think jokingly and detached from best modern serious approaches to obscure foreign languages and World Heritage, public education, Public Safety, and Social Justice, and science.

Was he otherwise concerned to make Old English and Middle English and Latin writings more accessible to the masses and the everyperson? Professors usually aren't but regretted it especially 2020 to 2023, though they blamed everyone but themselves. At least now we know how the world finally ended.

How long would it have taken JRR Tolkien to write out a complete explanation and interlinear gloss of his conlangs? 7 days, 6 days? And then publish or distribute it? Or hoard and sell to the highest bidder, or make painfully inaccessible to most people via 1800s saloo-like nightmarish internet communities that davridnglyy chase most people off in a most inhumane manner?

(Typos above: "daringly" and "saloon" were what I would have much preferred at the time. )

UCLA is in or next to Beverly Hills USA, perhaps near or comparable to metro Los Angeles USA. Beverly Hills and Manhattan are the two richest city sections in the USA. No doubt they kept Professor Victoria Fromkin, her husband, and their only son busy. But she was a state government employee mostly serving America's richest, not the teeming 350 million watching Land of the Lost on TV from 1974 to 1976. Linguistics is also a very new and small and underfunded and ignorantly stigmatized academic discipline and while it has always had mostly women professors, most of Academia really hasn't and still sounds especially unwelcoming to women academics.

Yet I have been among few language scientists to give such famous TV and movie conlangs skilled and competent attention. And I have done this to promote science and the study of all obscure foreign languages by anyone, within reason. Yet there has also necessarily been an appropriate limit the past 20 years to my time spent on any conlang. I too mostly study real languages and also advocate that as the best way to conlang or grow in advanced knowledge of Language Science and the comparative study of foreign languages: popular, important, less important, and or obscure and exotic; worrying, unfairly stigmatized or otherwise oppressed.

I can handle and make the most complex languages and writing systems, actually. I'm an independent scholar of 20 years of Language Science whose # 1 top specialty is the comparative study of all 50 or so logographic writing systems, of which I'm pioneering by light-years, far beyond any professor I know of. But I have studied and understood tons of reference grammars by top language scientists on tons of languages.

My conlangs and conscripts are ultra-complex because I pour into them the vast knowledge and experience studying languages and writing systems I have from 20 years. And I explain such ultra-complexities in notes, as for this Pakuni sample from 2018.

Yet I think my conlangs often appear and conscripts often appear ignorant to people with PhD's in Linguistics and my specialties and knowledge. How many conlangers are fluent in reading 20 languages and really experienced working a lot with at least 50 Non-Indo-European languages AND really know Linguistics like the best professors?

If conlangers aren t impressed with my conlangs, it s usually because it went right over their head. It's been like this for me most of 20 years since I started getting my BA Linguistics.

I am proud of the complexity and ingenuity of the Star Trek Ferengi language that I created some years ago, though. It didn't impress via noun incorporation nor Obviation markers nor baffling Tangut agreement pronouns, but instead something maybe-possible resembling the phenomenal sequential noun-case suffix reverse-order grammatical phrase -exterior stacking in Sumerian from Babylon, Old Nubian from The Sudan, and Meroitic from The Sudan. Something "delightfully devilish" to baffle the boffins.

"We been spending most our lives /

living in a Xena-grammarian's paradise."

My conlang work is also often with famous movie or TV conlangs that are simple. I do spice them up some.

My conlang work is scientific experimentation for me but also satire and commentary and art for me and also everybody.

One major point of my Pakuni language expansion (Neo-Pakuni) work was that English and international Latin and Greek word part -based dinosaur names are long and klunky and increasingly non- Latin and Greek. Like modern medical terminology, a sloppy quasi-conlang product of a bygone 1800s era (and errata) upon whose misuses and misspellings and confusions our very lives depend, much like their modern professional malpracticers.

Using Pakuni, I made new dinosaur names of far shorter length. Are they easier for English speakers to confuse, though? They seem easier to spell.

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I wrote this for the R/Conlangs Reddit group but they re over-strict amateurs and removed it. My apologies for getting bombastic and polemic in this post. I try to be flowery and interesting.

I'm actually way more into it that the 5,000 or so other language inventing poets ("conlangers") worldwide.

1974 Pakuni Language Words are Unrealistically Short, like Words of Most Constructed Languages; Other Irrealities Listed

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The Pakuni language has some design flaws and quirks shared by Klingon and many other invented languages (conlangs), from movies and home-made:

The words are too short. Despite movie invented languages being made often by people with PhD's in Linguistics ( = Language Science ), they tend to have words that are too short. Real languages have words with lengths proportionate to their phonology ( phonetic alphabet letter number and frequency, consonant cluster number and frequency, syllable structure, etc. ) [ jargon: phonemic inventory, number of syllable tones, usw. ].

Pakuni language is an example of this.

Klingon is an example of this.

I forget if JRR Tolkien Elvish aka Quenya is or Na'vi is but Elvish probably is an example of this.

2001 Marc Okrand Atlantean is an example of this.

David Peterson's conlangs (invented languages) are all like this.

Pakuni could be excused if it was limited for topics discussable. But that does not seem so.

This is a phenomena which occurs because language inventors may even have PhD's but lack really vast experience with many languages or a thorough study of this crucial feature of real languages.

Does this ruin invented languages for study? Yes. Invented languages all lack many things which real languages have and are accessible to language scientists. They also often mix and present grammar things from many different languages in a form more appealing and affordable and accessible than real languages. They are like toy languages or scientific experiment languages or archtype languages.

Their fiction is highly mechanical and nebulous compared to any other fiction of movies or TV. But they most resemble special effects, like huge robot dinosaurs or chemical reactions.

Real languages are actually mostly not regular human creations but an extension of human brain anatomy, mostly created and entirely stored and retrieved by the very real human subconcious mind or some part of it.

Famous movie language inventor David Peterson has speculated that humans subconsciously recognize true and structured invented languages from actual gibberish presented as a foreign language. This may be true but it's unprovable and not necessary to justify invented languages in movies.

I actually am a rare expert on conlangs in movies (invented languages) especially, and also conlangs otherwise. I don't entirely advocate for conlangs in movies because it's hassle for the actors on a number of different levels. Notably, all actors want screen time speaking English and connecting with their audience and fellow movie-makers.

Yet it's also a gigantic world of amazing and cutting-edge science which the movie connects with. But also stereotypes and problematic additional symbolism. "Does the invented language sound like Arabic? What message does that send to Middle Eastern American children?" Actors already put up with a lot being covered in Star Trek alien prosthetics plastic and make-up or interacting with Green Screen environments and filming scene sequence / movie scene sequence mismatch.

Movies wanting a foreign language sometimes instead use audio gibberish or bring in a real language to fool audiences or because that is the intended language. Most people obviously don't notice or care, so what's the point? Movies are tremendously expensive already but also have many other limits and priorities.

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Other things invented languages usually lack that real languages have:

Interesting words.

Large translated texts. Real languages from throughout time have all sorts of interesting word meanings which invented languages never have because language inventors are ignorant of such things.

Vastly complex alphabetic writing systems and hieroglyphic aka logographic writing systems.

Few invented languages are sign languages.

Many grammatical and etymological complexities.

Often invented languages vastly simplify grammatical paradigms.

Realistic idiomatic phenomena.

Much for approximation of modern or historic foreign cultures ( manners and mindsets).

( Languages are more than mechanics and interface with Anthropology which is an academic discipline or subject totally different from Linguistics aka Language Science, which almost exclusively discusses mere mechanics understood best via vast comparative study. )

Cultural strengths and baggages and stigmas.

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Should language inventors take pains to approximate real-world word length?

Actually, I recommend instead for professional and hobbyist language inventors, conlangers, increased priorities for private Linguistics and exotic languages and Anthropology study as well as attention to these other above invented language lackings. I also have many substantial criticisms of how all modern conlangers go about their hobby, many of which are presented in this article or post reply.

Movie conlangs also probably are pressured to fit into time frames that seem reasonable to English-speaking movie makers. What if a real language, or more realistic language, would have needed more time?

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Languages like Filipino and Tamil and Massachusett have similar phonologies to Pakuni yet have among the largest words on earth. You can't have few alphabet letters and no consonant clusters without gigantic words. Not with vocabulary sizes matching languages knowable from 2,500 BC through today. But what were the very first languages like, maybe from 100,000 BC? Fewer words or longer words.

1974 Pakuni Language Word for Dicynodont Dinosaur

(New Pakuni word made by me in 2018, Neo-Pakuni language.)

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Here's part of a webpage by me from Nov 14 2018 where I present new Pakuni language words for dinosaurs made by me in imitation of the original Pakuni language words made by UCLA Linguistics Professor Victoria Fromkin:

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New Dinosaur and Stone Age Tool Words for Pakuni Language:

With Modern Art and Stone Age Art

https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/11/pakuni-dinosaur-and-tool-words.html?view=flipcard

1974 Pakuni Language: "Friend" and Some Other Words, Link to Official Dictionaries

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Here in the images is "friend" and some other words from official dictionaries of the 1974 UCLA Professor Victoria Fromkin Pakuni language from the "Land of the Lost" kids TV show.

I am the world's top expert in this language since 2018. Feel free to write me on facebook. Few people write me so you'll get a quick response:

https://www.facebook.com/hieroglyphs/

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Quick Dictionaries for Pakuni Language

https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/09/quick-pakuni-language-dictionary.html?view=flipcard

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Pictures for Dictionaries of Pakuni

https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/11/pictures-for-dictionaries-of-pakuni.html?view=flipcard

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friend amura

friends amurani

Paku paku

Pakuni pakuni

[ A paku is a "caveman", some sort of hominid from prehistory 3 million BC to about 100k BC. So they are a type of human, one could say, because they make and use non-animal tools. ]

wug iwaga*

wugs iwagani*

Etymology:

This word is maybe based on Italian amora "love". A- noun prefix means human. 1974 Pakuni language words are usually from the Akan language of West Africa and languages closely related to it.

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Pakuni is pronounced like Spanish or Latin. I may give it an English spelling system in the future.

friend AMURANI

"AH moo rah nee"

Probably the first syllable is emphasized or stressed.

New Translation by Me in 1974 Land of the Lost Pakuni Language by UCLA Professor Victoria Fromkin from 2018: Prometheus from Hesiod with Original Ancient Greek

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Pakuni Text: Prometheus in Hesiod's Theogony with Ancient Greek

https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2018/11/pakuni-text-prometheus-in-hesiods.html?view=flipcard

Here is a small part of the translation:

So it is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus: 

ὣς οὐκ ἔστι Διὸς κλέψαι νόον οὐδὲ παρελθεῖν. 

 So   NIMA* 

Pakuni PAKUNI

all CHA*

not able M-BU

in U

time OMETA

any MENGSA*

that SHA

 deceive   JENG* 

 or   TE* 

go over CHITE*

boundary OSHETI*

regarding DAN

Pakuni PAKU

big BISA

in U

sky ENEM*

 of   FI* 

 will   ONGISA* 

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1978 Sesame Street Song reminds me of 1974 to 1976 Land of the Lost TV Show and its Victoria Fromkin Pakuni Language

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Song with Puppet TV Clip:

I Don't Want to Live on the Moon, 1978, Sesame Street.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kIq8jLj5TzU&list=RDkIq8jLj5TzU&start\_radio=1&pp=ygUebGl2ZSBvbiB0aGUgbW9vbiBzZXNhbWUgc3RyZWV0oAcB0gcJCcMKAYcqIYzv

Lyrics from Genius Com website:

[Verse 1]

Well, I'd like to visit the moon

On a rocket ship high in the air.

Yes, I'd like to visit the moon.

But I don't think I'd like to live there.

Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above,

I would miss all the places and people I love.

So although I might like it for one afternoon:

I don't want to live on the moon.

[Verse 2]

I'd like to travel under the sea

I could meet all the fish everywhere

Yes, I'd travel under the sea

But I don't think I'd like to live there

I might stay for a day there if I had my wish

But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish

And an oyster and clam aren't real family

So I don't want to live in the sea

[Bridge]

I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar

Go back in time and meet a dinosaur

There's so many strange places I'd like to be

But none of them permanently

[Verse 3]

So if I should visit the moon

Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then

I will make a wish on a star

And I'll wish I was home once again

Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above

I would miss all the places and people I love

So although I may go I'll be coming home soon

'Cause I don't want to live on the moon

No, I don't want to live on the moon

[[ Punctuation added by me to the first stanza for showcase. ]]

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Encore 1970s origin song,

also a lifelong favorite of mine:

He's the Wiz, 1970s, from 2016 The Wiz Live! Non-Cable TV movie.

https://youtu.be/P1MjMEsgk4k?si=p9dSGRPlx0aj7dbh

Encore 1970s song:

Pinball Wizard, The Who, 1970s.

https://youtu.be/JbnnWxZ5XfM?si=9liyTzQtIkW6QtSP