Re: TRANS: Borges (fi: conlanging and journaling)

On Feb 11, 2008, at 12:27 PM, MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 2/11/2008 03:47:56 AM Central Standard Time,
> ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK writes:
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>>>> "A man sets himself the task of portraying the world.
>>>> Through the years he peoples a space with images of
>>>> provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands,
>>>> fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly
>>>> before his death, he discovers that that patient
>>>> labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face."
>>>
>>> That would make a nice Translation Challenge :-P
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>> That's an idea! In Wenedyk (UTF-8):
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>> "Womień punie si mędu, prokód portretar mąd. Par onie ił popła
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>> szpac ku imażeni prowięczar, rzeniór, męciór, bajar, nakłar,
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>> izłar, pieszczór, kębrar, wycięźlar, ściołar, kawałór i
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>> ludzi. Kart prze mrocie, ił dziekoprze, kód labirynt pacięci
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>> liniar szekwie imażeń łu faczeje."
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>> Jan
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> This doesn't look like what you intended.
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> stevo   </HTML>
Yeah; for some reason it appears to treat the UTF-8 as Latin-1, even
after I tell it explicitly to treat it as UTF-8. Odd. (I'm using Mac
OS X Mail.)

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