#its halfway between the most elegant thing youve ever seen and the most nightmarishly untranslatable language ever made

[detectiveaku]

fyodor: our language will be free of imperfections and irregularities that plague common tongues. each sentence will follow a strict pattern that will describe the relations between subjects and objects, so that each thought and emotion can be spoken uniquely while always being understood and--what are you doing

dazai: 200 verb tenses. 300 noun cases. and they can permutate with each other and themselves to make millions of combinations. the verb is always split into two parts. the language has no words, only adjectives, pronouns, and relations. any word can be a swear word. any word can represent god. fuck you

fyodor: im going to enjoy killing you.