[TAG] [SEAPY] PyCon

[Mike Orr]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:55:15AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Jon Dugan <jdugan at x1024.net> wrote:
>  > >  John DeRosa wrote:
>  > >  > EGO diligo utriusque intentio, tamen EGO ventus virga per a tenuis
>  > >  > margin. Gratias ago vos pro effectus is! Quam can EGO transporto vos
>  > >  > nonnullus viaticus ut destituo vestri sumptus?
>  > >
>  > >  I am afraid my latin is paltry at best, so I had to rely on machine translation:
>  > >
>  > >  I to value highly both intention , nothwithstanding I wind a green twig very a
>  > >  thin margin. Give thanks you for rendered this! How can I send you some
>  > >  pertaining to a journey when to place your expenses?
>  >
>  > I was stunned that some of it looked exactly like Esperanto:
>
>  Why? From what I recalled, and as confirmed by Wikipedia, Esperanto is
>  "...a language lexically predominantly Romanic... the vocabulary derives
>  primarily from the Romance languages." Seems like the most probable
>  projection of what you'd get when comparing the two languages is exactly
>  what you got.

Most of the vocabulary comes from *modern* Romance languages.  Some
stuff does come directly from Latin ("post" being the most common),
but it's rare enough that it's an oddity.

Zamenhof was pretty random in sometimes choosing words in their
ancient form (post = after, patro = father), sometimes with French
idiosyncracies (preta = ready, instead of presta), and sometimes with
German idiosyncracies (lasi = to let, instead of lati), for no
apparent reason.  I'm sure there are Russian idiosyncracies too though
I can't think of any off the top of my head except:

    okopniki = to be a vicious pirate on the high seas
    perle okopniki = to do the same while using Perl, or in a
Perl-like manner (e.g., shouting Haiku at your enemies)

-- 
Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>