Grice was irritated by the word 'convention': words conventionally mean. My bollocks. Surely I can lay in my bathtub, Grice would say, and invent idiotically perhaps, or idiosyncratically, as I prefer, a 'deutero-Esperanto'.
The second step is having your friend in the bathtub, too, so that you can converse.
V. Noakes, in "Edward Lear: the life of a wanderer", p. 189 quotes a letter from the Ligurian mysoginist to his friend Lord Northbrook -- reproduced from Queery Leary Nonsense, p. 6:
Thrippy Pilliwinx,
Inkly tinksy pobblebookle abblesquabs?
Flosky?
Beebul trimble flosky!
Okul scratchbibblebongibo, viddle
squibble tog-a-tog, ferrymoyassity
amsky flamsky ramsky damsky
crocklefether squiggs.
Flinkywisty pomm
Slushypipp
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