At 6:21 pm +0100 11/5/01, Daniel44 wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I wonder how natlangs and conlangs would translate sentences such as:
Latin
>"He ran as fast as he could ..."
quam celerrime cucurrit
as fastest he-ran
>
>"She was as old as he was."
quantus natu erat ille tanta haec
as-great by-birth was that[masc] so-great this[fem]
Novial, on the other hand, is boringly similar to English:
lo kursed tam rapidim kam lo povud
la esed tam oldi kam lo.
Ray.
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