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Incorporating foreign languages, slang, dialect, and so on into a work.

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Transcribing a fictional pictograph based language

Ideally, I would like the reader to become fluent in this very basic language with limited meanings as the novel progresses somewhat in the same vein as 1984's Newspeak and A Clockwork Orange's slang. … The Emojiite language for example would consist of the pictographs of: A man running, a party hat, a beer, an alarm flashing. (This would be followed by the translation for the reader: Hurry. …