This language was used to write the collection Beyond Life and the poem “The Vagabond Sings,” published after its author Julio Baghy was imprisoned in Siberia. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language into which The Infant Race author William Auld translated Robert Burns’ poetry. Edmond Privat used this constructed language to write a biography of its creator, L. L. Zamenhof.
ANSWER: Esperanto
[10m] A man struggles to parse an office note written in the fictional language Ptydepe (“puh-TYE-duh-pee”) in this author's play The Memorandum. Members of the Liquidation Office speak a vapid language in another play by this author.
ANSWER: Václav Havel (the second play is The Garden Party)
[10h] To bypass computer detection, people in a space station talk in the metaphor-laden language of Koalang in this author’s novel Paradyzja (”pah-rad-EEZ-yah”). A lunar colony euthanizes 60-year-olds in this Polish author’s novel Van Troff’s Cylinder.
ANSWER: Janusz Zajdel (“yah-NOOSH ZYE-dul”) [or Janusz Andrzej Zajdel]
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