Date Collected
Winter 12-6-2018
Place item was collected
Logan, UT
Informant
Calianne Timothy
Point of Discovery/Informant Bio
Cali is a student at Utah State University. She’s from Texas, served an LDS mission in Montana, and she’s engaged!
Context
We were just hanging out in our apartment and in her room when I was having another interviewee sign their release form when she overheard what we were talking about and mentioned that she used to speak Dwarfish in high school so I asked her more about it and it was casual.
Text
Dwarfish is like what… Dwarfs…. Speak.
Me: like in Lord of the Rings too?
Yeah, my friend knew it and would write notes to me in it.
Me: Cool! How would you know what it said? Could you speak it too?
She would like write me.. a key. And I would just decipher it. [laughs]
Me: What grade were you in?
[laughs] um…. Senior year of high school. [laughs more]
Texture
She was happy and just enjoying the conversation.
Course
ENGL 2200
Instructor
Lynne S. McNeill
Semester and year
Fall 2018
Theme
G3: Language
EAD Number
11.1.0.12
Recommended Citation
McDougal, Taylor, "High School Dwarfish" (2018). USU Student Folklore Fieldwork. Paper 354.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/student_folklore_all/354