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Re: Language of the Nautilus and her crew

From: Michael T. Bee <michael.t.bee~at~gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:29:14 -0600
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Thank you, Victor!

I have just begun learning Esperanto!

~ best regards

Michael T. Bee

michael.t.bee~at~gmail.com


http://www.google.com/profiles/michael.t.bee



On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:24, Victor Sirvent <vsirvent~at~ldc.usb.ve> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> James D. Keeline
>> _____
>>
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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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