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Re: History of constructed languages

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, April 8, 2005, 6:33
Sally Caves skrev:
> ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > >
The name Artabas sure looks Persian too; _artavaan_ would be "righteous" in Old Persian. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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