Neil Harris wrote:
Since it appears to be possible to generate Europanto by word-by-word translation of English into European languages chosen at random on a word-by-word basis, I'd imagine that it would not be too difficult to generate a Europanto Wikipedia programmatically, using the English Wikipedia as source material, and perhaps Wiktionary as the word-for-word translation dictionary. Throw in link grammars for fair-to-reasonable part-of-speech tagging...
Und voila! Esta Vikipedio Europantoi - L'encyclopédie fria e gratuita, mit 950,000 artikelen!
Curiously, my brain processes that as "The fried encyclopedia". So I guess it's a decent enough joke. As a Wikipedia language, though, it ranks up there with Klingon.
--Michael Snow