When he was a student in linguistics and English at the University of California, Berkeley, David Peterson worked on a secret language for two months. It was called “Megdevi”. This was an amalgam of both his own name and Megan, his girlfriend at the time. Once satisfied with his new words and grammar rules, he presented it to her. It was his grand romantic gesture: a private language they could use to communicate only with each other.
戴維?彼得森(David Peterson)在美國加州大學(xué)伯克利分校(University of California, Berkeley)學(xué)習(xí)語言學(xué)和英文時,花兩個月時間發(fā)明了一種秘密語言,給它取名為“梅戴語”(Megdevi)——這是大衛(wèi)和他當(dāng)時的女友梅甘(Megan)名字的結(jié)合體。待新詞和語法規(guī)則令他滿意后,他將成果展示給女友。這是他送出的一份非常浪漫的愛情大禮:一種只在他倆之間使用的私密語言。