Volapuk (was: General Question)

At 10:12 am +0200 26/3/01, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:
>>
>> No!  I thought I'd never hear another living soul speak (or, in this
>> case,
>> write) that word ever again!  Are there still books on the language?
>
>Books on the language may be difficult to find,
Tho I understand they exist.

>but there are still resources
>about the language on the Internet (most of it in Esperanto! :) ).
But, thankfully, not all.  I don't have URLs handy, but a half-decent
search engine should find non-Esperanto URLs relating to Volapük.

[snip]
>
>About Volapük, I remember seeing a report about the last two members of the
>British Society of Volapük, or something like that (I cannot remember the
>exact
>name of the association). They were meeting to celebrate the birthday of the
>creator of Volapük (what's his name again?).
Johann Martin Schleyer, a German priest, 1880.

[snip]
>mine found in a crosswords game the name Esperanto under the definition
>"langue
>ancienne": old language :)))) ), I wonder how serious the report was...
But 1887 is quite a while ago - only 7 years after Volapük!

Certainly, compared with Occidental (1922), Novial (1928), Interlingua
[both Peano's (1927) and the IALA (1951) versions], Interglossa (1943),
Frater (1957), Babm (1962), Glosa (1983) etc. etc., it is an old language.

>> Are
>> there actually people who speak it?  I could've sworn all the
>> Esperantists
>> would've gotten to them and "resolved" them by now.  Oh, how the world
>> works...
>>
>
>:)) Good that they didn't, though I think many of them would like to do it.
I agree on both points.

>Prejudice, prejudice...
I suspect 'experience, experience...' might be more correct - if your
experience of 'talpoj' is similar to mine.

Ray.

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A mind which thinks at its own expense
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