hatelang

English

Etymology

From hate +‎ -lang.

Noun

hatelang (plural hatelangs)

  1. A conlang created with the primary goal of being unpleasing to its creator, usually as an edifying exercise.
    • 2012 October 14, Creyeditor, “Re: What did you accomplish today?”, in The CBB‎[1] (forum):
      I did a language "Omlűt" which uses everything I used to avoid, a kind of hatelang. It's like a mix of german and english, but completely unusable.
    • 2020 March 30, Pabappa, “Re: Conlang Random Thread”, in Zompist Bboard‎[2] (forum):
      Here are some ideas descended from what I call hatelangs .... languages that I created to either be bad on purpose, or to embody ideas which I dislike in order to serve as a foil for a different language.

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