[PW] English to ???

[David Payne]

>From a friend of a friend:

Got a call from a patron today looking for a story that he read about 20 years ago. However, he said the story was not a new one of that time, just that's when he read it. He cannot remember the title or author but gave this description.

It's an essay or short story. It starts in English and progresses to tell how a language might be changed by substituting a letter or symbol for a letter we have in English. As the story goes on the author is subtly changing the
letters to the symbols or new letters he has discussed so that by the end of the story you (the reader) are actually reading this "new" language that has morphed from English. He strongly thinks the "new" language is German or is similar to German. He also has a vague notion that it might have been written by Samuel Clemens
but says that is very vague and could be totally wrong.

At first I thought he was describing Ella Minnow Pea but as he went on I realized that story does not meet his description. Also, it wasn't written too long ago. Does anyone have any idea what he is talking about?

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