Just take random words from different European languages. Most Europanto texts seem to be a sort of Belgian mixed language of mostly French, Dutch, and German, with a fair bit of English and Spanish thrown in for good measure.
I'm sure there are some common threads -- for example, perhaps people use "huis" more than "house", or perhaps the most common definite article is "le". Beyond some very weak trends, I would suspect that all of the stronger trends vary from person to person -- I, for example, tend to use more English although I make a conscious effort to replace English words I've already written with words in other languages. Other people, however, tend not to take such care and end up using Europanto "dialects" which are clearly influenced more by their native language.
Mark
On 15/03/06, Ilya N. ilyanep@gmail.com wrote:
Is there even a set vocabulary, or does one simply just take random words from different European languages?
Ich puedo do éso. ¿?Können Tu?
On 3/15/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I agree here, although it would be interesting if somebody wrote a Europanto script.
Mark
On 15/03/06, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Servien Ilaino wrote:
Hoi,
Ich ne denk pas that een Europanto Wikipedia ist een bon idee, een
couple de
språker sollen be gebruikt und rien ne sollen pas het förstår.
It's more like a fun language, but as I said some languages will be
used
more than others, it also seems like a project which is more intended
for
fun than a serious encyclopedia.
Perhaps a Wikicity?
As I said when this was last brought up, it should only take the writing of a fairly simple script, and you can munge en: and Wiktionary more or less instantly into over 1,000,000 Europanto articles. Given that, why bother? In my opinion, once you've realized this, the task becomes about as interesting as Sudoku does once you've written a constraint-search solver.
-- Neil
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