Describing NisseEngelsk: A Brief Memoir
A supplement to the Lingoblog-article The language of The Julekalender by Mickey Blake, the original writer of the background study for the article.
How the time flies! It seems almost impossible that it’s been over twelve years since I visited Carsten Knudsen at his home in Risskov to obtain a copy of the script from “The Julekalender” and ask him about the creation of “NisseEngelsk”. Little did I know that day how much work I was setting myself up for!
Peter Bakker had been hoping for years that some brave student with no clue as to what they were getting themselves into would write a description of the fictitious language, and he found his patsy – er, star