Re: CHAT: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Old English, like Latin, has already engaged in translation
> projects promoting world understanding.  But I think the UD is
> looking for living languages.  Not dead languages or solitary
> languages that have been made up and none outside this list has
> heard of.
Well, that's why I mentioned Latin, which surely is a marginal
example of a living language, even if it is the official language
of Vatican City.  Putting Latin and E-o on the list, when surely
anyone who knows either, knows one of the other 300 languages better,
indicates a desire for what the talk.bizarre Usenet newsgroup
used to call "VOLUME VOLUME VOLUME".  They mention being in the
Guinness Book of World Records as the most-translated text (seems
shaky to me; I should think the New Testament would be more often
translated).

So why not help them break 400?

> However, I might be tempted! :)
Excellent.  The best way to resist a temptation is to give in
to it, as Oscar Wilde says.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin