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Re: BIG BAD ON Conlang T-Shirt WEBPAGE

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 16:19
How do you pronounce Volapu"k anyway?  Genuinely curious.  I try,
and it comes out Vola puke.   <G>

Sally
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>=20 > > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 06:45:09 -0500 > > From: Jay Bowks <jjbowks@...> >=20 > > Definitely false statement of fact! Esperanto was not the earliest > > wasn't even close... of the constructed languages for international > > use there were many many, incredibly many, years, decades even > > centuries before Esperanto came on the scene. Volapuk was an > > earlier quite successful in it's day auxlang. Why it's validity > > as an auxlang should be questioned? I dunno... but I do know that > > there are newer auxlang projects that have come on the scene > > that showed a strong following, Ido of course, Latino sine Flexione > > Interlingue Occidental and Novial, and Interlingua de IALA, etc. >=20 > In fact, wasn't Volap=FCk the first auxlang that actually got a large > enough international following to be noticed? (In Europe, of course, > this was the 1880's). In Danish, volapyk still means unintelligible > language. >=20 > Anyway, if any auxlangs go on the shirt at all, I think Volap=FCk and > Esperanto would be good candidates simply because they had/have large > followings, and were the first such of their 'kinds' of auxlang. Add a > nice popular Romance-clone, and perhaps the original Novial (2.ed) > just to have some variation, because it has some Germanic vocabulary > too. >=20 > Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT m=
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