Re: History of constructed languages

Citerar Sally Caves <scaves@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>
>
> >> 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.
>
> So, "falsely righteous!"  Do you have a sense that the Persian is gibberish?
>
> Sally
>
The endings are real, but I can make no sense of the stems,
nor of the whole.  The verb seems to come in the middle,
('anapissonnai) while both Greek and OP were verb-final...

It could well be that it is a gibberishification (word?) of
one or more real OP utterances in the original.

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