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From: urban%hercules@RAND.ORG (Michael Urban)
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Subject: [soc.culture.esperanto] Re: Volapu"k
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Date: 24 Jun 91 04:34:14 GMT
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Archive-name: culture/esperanto/vega-languages/1991-06-20
Archive: rand.org:/pub/esperanto/other-tongues/languages.shar [192.5.14.33]
Original-posting-by: urban%hercules@RAND.ORG (Michael Urban)
Original-subject: Re: Volapu"k
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


Around the beginning of the year, Nick Nicholas and others produced
translations of Suzanne Vega's song `Language' into a half dozen planned
languages, including no fewer than two Volapuk translations.

I believe that you can get these from the Planned Languages server, and
you can FTP a TeX version from rand.org from the shell archive file
pub/esperanto/other-tongues/languages.shar.  

One of the criticisms sometimes leveled at Esperanto is that it
sometimes twists its source words beyond recognition.  Volapuk was a
past master at this.  The name Volap"uk is derived from two ENGLISH
words, `world-speak', vilely murdered and dragged from the grave in
horribly mutated form.

I will withhold comment on root-creation in Lojban and Loglan...

	Mike

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