(v., pronounced to rhyme with 'rock' (and with a voiced 'th', if possible), but can be said 'thack' to rhyme iwth 'back') 1. to create supposedly foreign or alien written language by simple transliteration of your language into the other language's alphabet; 2. to create a written language by simply making up a squiggly for each of the letters in your native alphabet; 3. to write words in your own language in another alphabet; 4. to use a current, real language in a boxen in which that language could not exist. (n.) 5. any instance of thacking, especially in television or cinema, although it is quite common in books as well. (An acronym from the initial sounds of "THey Are Coming" (/ðak/ or /¦Иak/), which appeared in the _The Fellowship of the Ring_, written in Elvish script, but plainly English words, in the record book they find in Moria.)
Примеры использования:
1. "They are coming" is thacked in Elvish script, but English words, in _The Fellowship of the Ring_.
2. In the Dinotopia books, the sentient and generally peaceful dinosaurs have a thacked written language of footprint-combinations for each of the 26 English letters.
3. When I was in college, I thacked my financial records in Russian---that is, English words, but Russian script---it drove my parents and my bank nuts.
4. David Eddings thacked the language in his _Belgariad_ and _Malloreon_ series, cribbing almost entirely from English: The characters all speak English (even referring to the etymology of "shepherd" as "sheep-herder" and referring to the letter U. This despite their being on a planet located on another planet somewhere off in the vastness of the universe.
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