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Re: Language of the Nautilus and her crew

From: Victor Sirvent <vsirvent~at~ldc.usb.ve>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:54:13 -0430
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In the excellent annotated edition of the 20K published by The Naval
Institute Press (the translation was done by W.J.Miller and F.P. Walter)
there is a footnote (page 102), where a possible meaning and etymology
of the words in the famous sentence:
\"Nautron respoc lorni virch\"
is explained.

Verne was interested in the artificial languages and this can be seen
in some of his works.
In 2005 I wrote a paper (in Esperanto) about this topic, it can be
downloaded at:
http://www.ma.usb.ve/~vsirvent/esp/verne.pdf

Victor Sirvent


On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:21:59 -0800 (PST), James Keeline wrote:
> But there were others that were earlier
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_auxiliary_language),
> including one from 1868, about the time that 20K was being worked
> upon.  Certainly the idea of such a language is what he was trying to
> convey even if the details are different.
>
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>>________________________________
>> From: Michael T. Bee <michael.t.bee~at~gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>Thanks, so much.  
>>
>>
>>Interesting aside: Conseil makes statement: “That’s the nuisance in
>> not knowing every language,” Conseil replied, “or the drawback in not
>> having one universal language!” -Pt.1 Ch 8 “Mobilis in Mobili”
>>
>>
>>...Esperanto doesn\'t come along until 1887!
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