[Wikipedia-l] Europanto

[Mark Williamson]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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