Re: History of constructed languages

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From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>


> Muke Tever skrev:
>
>
>> I _do_ remember this. Hmm.  Let me look it up.
>>
>> It was in Acharnians; Pseudartabas has the line:
>> "Jartaman exarx 'anapissona satra." (or: exarxan apissona?)
>>
>> The English version at Perseus bears a footnote "Jargon,
>> no doubt meaningless in all languages."
>> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Aristoph.+Ach.+100
>>
>>     *Muke!
>
> It certainly does have an Old Persian look and feel.
> I guess OP was the barbarian language par preference
> for Athenians at the time.
Here seems to be a better link, for those of you who, like me, couldn't
access this page ("The page you are trying to access has not been published
yet." :-(>  tongue sticking out)

http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/etext05/7rst110.txt

The note is 167, and the "jargon" is: Jartaman exarx 'anapissonnai satra,
uttered by a certain Pseudartabas, whose name seems to hint at something
false.  What's the rest of it mean?
Not up on me ancient Greek, and too lazy to transcribe the characters for
the Internet on-line dictionaries.

Sally

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