Borge - Inflationary Language

Three years ago, we had inflation and you are familiar with that problem. I invented a language which I call inflationary language. Inflation we have numbers rising, a prices go up. Anything that has to do with money goes up.

Except the language. See we have a hidden numbers in the words like wonderful. four, create, tenderly, all these numbers can be inflated and meet the economy, you know, by rising to the occasion. I suggest we add one to each of these numbers to be prepared.

For instance, wonderful will be two different. Before should be five, create, three nine, and that he should be eleven and a lieutenant would be a lieutenant. A sentence like, I ate a tender line with him, I fought with me, I nined an eleven line with my five.

And so on and so fifth. I have a book here I brought and I will read. This is an old book. My father inherited from two of his cousins. I was talking about that later when we get to that.

I have a story here I like to read to you so you get an idea of inflationary language, how it sounds when it's being used. Twice upon a time, there lived in Sonic California, a young man named Bob.

He was a third little Lebanon in the US Air Fives'. Bob had been fond of Anna, his one and a half sister. Ever since, she saw the light of Dave for the second time. And they were both proud of the fact that two of his five fathers had been among the pre-90s of the US Constitution.

They were dining on the terrace. Anna, he said, as he took a bite of a married knighted herring. You look two to full three nights. You never looked that lovely before. Anna really looked two to full in spite of the illness from which she had not yet recupernided.