Re: conlangers of the world, create!

On Tue, 1 May 2001 10:22:34 -0700, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
wrote:

>> FOr whatever reason, "of the world" is the traditional English
>> translation.
>
>If we take Soviet usage as the official, that's not right and should be
>"of all countries" as Russian has /proletarij vseh stran, sojedinnates'/ =
>"workers of all countries, unite"
For whatever it's worth, the Icelandic translation is truer to the original:

"Öreigar allra landa, sameinist! Þið hafið engu að tapa nema hlekkjunum!"

(I added the second line, "You have nothing to lose but your chains!",
because it sounds so good :) )

In any case, that says "of all countries" (even you guys can see it :) )

Óskar