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Subject: Umberto Eco speaks Volapük!

From:wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...>
Date:Monday, October 6, 2003, 17:59
Thomas Leigh nevesht:
> >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: > >"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: > >Mael nio, kui vai o les zael, aepseno lezai tio mita. Veze lezai tio = >tsaeleda. > >O fat obas, kel binol in s=FCs, paisalidum=F6z nemola. Kom=F6n=F6d = >monarg=E4n ola. [sic -- TL] > >Pat isel, ka bi ni sielos. Nom al zi bi santed. Klol alzi komi. > >O baderus noderus, ki du esso in seluma, fakdade sankadus, hanominanda = >duus, adfenade ha rennanda duus. > >Amy Pornio dan chin Orhnio viey, gnayjorhe sai lory, eyfodere sai = >bagalin, johre dai domion. > >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:
> > > 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. > > > Pat isel, ka bi ni sielos. Nom al zi bi santed. Klol alzi komi. > >Spelin, by Georg Bauer (1889), see >http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/bibliography.html > > > 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"! >
-Wayne Chevrier _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail