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From: breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel)
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Subject: Re: aUI
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 23:31:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 23:31:42 1986
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I have heard about 'aUI' a few years ago in Germany. Unfortunately,
the language never received the attention it deserved. Weilgart was
actually American (that's what the 'John' comes from) and returned
to the United States after many years of teaching at a number of
renowned European universities. 'aUI' was sort of a hobby of his.
Professionally, his greatest achievement was probably that he came
up with the concept of syntactic transformations (no, Harris was
not the first person to whom it occurred).

For your reading pleasure, you find another short translation of
the beginning of a German 19th century novel. The spirit of that novel
actually reflects the spirit behind 'aUI' rather well. Since the
grammar and vocabulary of 'aUI' are pretty intuitive, you should be able
to decode this passage rather easily. Unfortunately, the translation
isn't very good, so that some of the features of the German language
shine through when you have studied it closely. Well, enjoy, and
if in a few days nobody has figured out what it was taken from,
I'll post the passage in the original and give the title of the book
(a book that I highly recommend, btw):

rF vFg qbPU rgJnf FpuBrarf, uReeYvpurf, ReUnorarf hZ qnf Yrora. "B Qh
fHrFmR TRJbUaurvG qrF QnFrvAf!" ehsG wRarE avRqReynraQvfPur UryQ vA
QrE GeNtbRqvr Nhf. Fb NhPU vPU, Nore avPug JvR qrE UryQ va qRz
FpuZremYvpurA NhtraOyvPx, Nyf re Fvpu qnIba GerAAra Fbyy -- ArVa! --
vA qRz ZbzrAg, Qn zVpu Rora qvr IbyyR yHfg qrf TrQnaXraf qhEpuQevatG,
qNfF vpu va WraR fhrFmr TrJbuAurvG aha tNam haQ tne UvarvAtrXbzzrA
haQ qHepuNhf aVpug JvyyRaf ova, wrZnyf jvrqrE uvaNhfmhXbzzra.

					Enjoy,
					Thomas.