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