Josef Gross (Andrew Gross in the Wilson translation), a director of an unnamed organization, receives a memorandum written in Ptydepe, a constructed language, about an audit. He finds out that Ptydepe was created to eliminate emotional connotations and similarities between unrelated words (such as "fox" and "ox").

Nejdelší slovo v ptydepe označuje rorýse říčního (fiktivní živočišný druh) a sestává z 319 písmen. Nejkratším slovem je naopak gh, které označuje „cokoli“ a pro případ, že by se našlo slovo pro obsažení obecnějšího významu než „cokoli“, bude mu v ptydepe přiřazeno f.

2011年12月19日 · The introduction of an artificial language, Ptydepe, is supposed to streamline office communications, but only makes it worse. Havel's satire is full of irony about the kind of jobs created by communism as well as the constant surveillance by office spies.

2015年3月9日 · Ptydepe is the name for the new official language used by the organisation in Vyrozumění (or Memorandum). It was scientifically created to make communication more precise and to eliminate any ambiguities.

one distinct feature of the new language Ptydepe is the use of straight- forward Roman characters without any of the diacritics that render dis- tinctive letters such as č, ě, and so forth in Czech.

2011年4月28日 · The first of these, called Ptydepe, is designed to maximize redundancy, and thus distinctiveness. Every word of Ptydepe must differ from every other word of the same length by at least 60 percent. To mitigate the sesquipedalian consequences of this restriction, forms are allocated to meanings according to frequency; the shortest word of Ptydepe ...

As with Václav Havel’s treatment of the artificial language Ptydepe, Borges’s pseudoessay on the languages of Tlön makes use of a number of ironies and paradoxes—for a serious purpose. Borges’s 1940 story documents the creation of an...

1995年3月30日 · Ptydepe (pronounced “petty dip”), the language invented by the bureaucracy, is the play’s chief dramatic device.

2011年8月25日 · Note: Ptydepe is a fictional, artificial language featured in Czech playwright Václav Havel's 1966 play, The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization.

2019年8月16日 · With the best of intentions, someone in his chain of command has decided to institute a new language designed to be immune from typesetting errors. But in practice the language-called Ptydepe-is...