Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

 --- Costentin Cornomorus skrzypszy:

> Actually, an English translation from Syriac was
> the source I used. It's in "The Lost Books of the
> Bible".
I don't know it, unfortunately. I checked in my Apocryphs, but this letter was
not there. As a matter of fact, I have no idea about the number of Apocryphical
books.

> I made the Latin translation, and then worked
> from that for the others.
That's probably what I would have done too. English is a great language, but it
has a major disadvantage as a source language: it is difficult to keep it from
leaving marks in the translation.

> EUROLINGUA - I think it might actually be
> Interlingua, though, come to look at it. I don't
> know - all these euroclones look alike to me!
Yes, it looks like Interlingua. One question: if you are not exactly a friend
of IALs, why bother to translate this text into one of them?

> > The One And Only IAL?! You mean Kernanto?
>
> Don't you know it, you copy-catters! I mean, if
> you _must_ try your hand at (needlessly!)
> creating a new IAL, at least don't copy our
> Fundamnto verbatim! Sheesh!
Ahem! *Your* Fundamento?! It might have escaped your attention that your
fundamento is nothing but a bad translation from *our* Fundamento, which was
there long before the conceivers of Kernopanto were even born! In fact, our
scientists have found sufficient evidence that Adam and Eve already
communicated in Venedino.

From our Fundamento:
"Venedino is the Most Perfect, the Most Universal, the One and Only True IAL
yet devised by the mind of humankind. It is the language of all times - past,
present, and future. No other can compare; e.g., Esperanto, Volapuko, Kernanto,
Kernopanto - they make the whole world laugh at how ludicrously insufficient
they are."

> > Kernopanto? Ah, you see? Apparently Kernanto
> > was such a complete failure that
> > they even had to change its name (into an even
> > uglier one, but that aside!).
>
> Uglier!? Try "more perfect" and "more universal"!
> The new Fundamento states it right there in
> print: "Kernopanto is the most perfect, most
> universal IAL yet devised by the mind of
> humankind. No other can compare; e.g., Esperanto,
> Volapuke, Venedino - they make the whole world
> laugh at how ludicrously insufficient they are."
Should I be impressed now? Well, Kernopanto isn't much of a threat anymore, is
it? My agents informated me that the Kernopanto movement has split in two
halves: the other speaker decided to quit and promote another language,
Kernoklono, instead. What a fraud!

Anyway, this text only proves that those Kernopantos are nothing but thieves,
not even worth the effort of suing them for plagiarism. In fact, they can use
our Fundamento for whatever purpose they like. Venedino, after all, is a
perfect and universal language, which is an objective fact that does not need
to be emphasised by any kind of propaganda.

> > Anyway, whatever signals you transmit into deep
> > space in Kernanto, I doubt
> > whether the space aliens will pick it up
> > easily, with all these articles!
>
> Nonsense! We have recieved the several replies.
Yeah, like this one: "We wanted to come peacefully and bring you the cure to
all disease, but then we heard this poor excuse for a language, and we decided
we might as well exterminate you right away. Farewell, Earth!"

> > Venedino at least doesn't have those!
>
> I.e., it is the totally insufficient IAL for the
> international (and the future interplanetary)
> communication! You Venedinistes have got to be
> kidding - even the your neighbouring Volvolinkvo
> is a step up!
You mean those copycats from Scandinavia?! I'm surprised that there is even one
person in this world who knows about them, but I observe with satisfaction that
your knowledge about them is limited. Let me enlighten you: they are just a
bunch of traitors and heretics! First they pretended to share the noble ideals
of the Venedino movement, but what they did in fact was nothing but sabotage.
They even tried to gain support for a monster they called "Venedino Sen Flekso,
Artikulos e Diakritikos"! Needless to say that the true Venedinistos remained
faithful to The Right Way. Because of their utter lack of success, the traitors
renamed their miserable creature "Volvolinkvo" in a fruitless effort to spoil
the souls of innocent idealists. Nothing to worry about. They hardly succeed
even in concealing the fact that they are just agents of Scandinavian
capitalism and imperialism!

> > Jan [jAn]
>
> Lucky bastard!
Hehe.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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