Question
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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