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		jb_s on Dec 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chemical emitted by babies could make men more doc... Languages are hard enough without that! I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make a "nightmare" language that is as hard to learn as possible. Thinking like.. 13 tones, pops, clicks, whistles, every possible grammatical structure from other languages at once... etc

somesortofthing on Dec 13, 2021 [–]

It's technically optimized for information density rather than pure frustration but it sounds like Ithkuil is what you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil?wprov=sfla1

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