Subject: Umberto Eco speaks Volapük!
| From: | wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 6, 2003, 17:59 |
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Thomas Leigh nevesht:
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>So I just finished reading Umberto Eco's latest novel, "Baudolino" -- =
>which is a darn good read, for those of you out there who haven't read =
>it yet -- and there's this one scene near the end, in Chapter 35, where =
>Baudolino and his companions are rallying the denizens of the city of =
>Pndapetzim (various fantastical races such as skiapods, blemmyae, =
>panotians, and pygmies) to fight against the invading White Huns. And =
>the following passage:
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>"The strategy had been so designed that nothing was left to chance, and =
>at night the cohorts crowded into the center of the city and proceeded, =
>by the light of the first stars, towards the plain, each preceded by =
>its own priests and chanting in its own language the Pater Noster, with =
>a majestic sonorous effect that had never been heard, not even in Rome =
>in a most solemn procession:
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>Mael nio, kui vai o les zael, aepseno lezai tio mita. Veze lezai tio =
>tsaeleda.
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>O fat obas, kel binol in s=FCs, paisalidum=F6z nemola. Kom=F6n=F6d =
>monarg=E4n ola. [sic -- TL]
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>Pat isel, ka bi ni sielos. Nom al zi bi santed. Klol alzi komi.
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>O baderus noderus, ki du esso in seluma, fakdade sankadus, hanominanda =
>duus, adfenade ha rennanda duus.
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>Amy Pornio dan chin Orhnio viey, gnayjorhe sai lory, eyfodere sai =
>bagalin, johre dai domion.
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>Hai coba ggia rild dad, ha babi io sgymta, ha salta io velca..."
>
>
>The first and third also strike me as nineteenth-century conlangs, =
>though I don't know if they really are.=20
>
All are conlangs, Irecognize the last two as Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Century conlangsviz. Knowlson Artificial language Schemes in England and
France 1600-1800(University of Toronto Press)
John Cowan nevesht:
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> > where Baudolino and his companions are rallying the denizens of the city
> > of Pndapetzim (various fantastical races such as skiapods, blemmyae,
> > panotians, and pygmies) to fight against the invading White Huns.
>
>All straight out of Herotodos, BTW.
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> > Pat isel, ka bi ni sielos. Nom al zi bi santed. Klol alzi komi.
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>Spelin, by Georg Bauer (1889), see
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http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/bibliography.html
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> > O baderus noderus, ki du esso in seluma, fakdade sankadus, hanominanda
>duus, adfenade ha rennanda duus.
>
>Carporophilus (1734), author pseudonymous. Google tried to correct this
>one to "O buderus noderus, kidu esso in selma"!
>