Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn't listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then ......... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Habemus Papam! > > > > > > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ut aliquip ex ea commodo > > > consequat... > > > > John jr_esq: > > We're impressed with your Latin. But what does it say? > > > Thanks, John - Latin, like Sanskrit, is a dead language. > > Currently I am learning not only Latin, but Spanish, French, > Japanese, [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z7glCNYnLfM/UUHqT8vC_MI/AAAAAAAABDE/\ WrU7NITnjnk/s576/jap.jpg?gl=GB]
Sanskrit,Hindi, [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pU_QztsRiCQ/UUHw7j7ttsI/AAAAAAAABFQ/\ jUZARx-fV9Q/s512/sanskrit.jpg?gl=GB] snip > not to forget CHINESE CYRILL not to forget LUXEMBURGUES De ruffen laacht blëtzen dee. De net rifft Kléder däischter, geet Bänk Noper den as. Onser iweral Nuechtegall hu dee, d'Blumme hannendrun sou hu. Dé Land d'Wéën Fielse dén, spilt Stieren hun et. Wär gemaacht Dauschen si. Eise Kënnt hun en.... not to forget ESPERANTO Festonomo familiano ik dio, unt edzo rilativo miriametro o. Cento frazospeco for jo, iv ism unuo halt' esceptinte. Neado kazablanko ke ont, oni ve kurta jugoslavo kondicionalo. Kelka duontono ian ar, vato trioleto matematika kv poa......... not to forget interlingua Su apprende distinguer concretisation nos, web il unic parlar connectiones, como cadeva del su. Nos studio traducite independente da, subjecto promotores se nos. Africa personas pro al, tu nos ascoltar immediatemente. Web al ultra publication.......... not to forget QUENYA Fárë inyo palla cua vi, nauva nuquéra yen é, oa pitya valdë ataquë car. Fárë axan ré loc, ná talta ninwa hantalë var. Fum valda ataquë yá, nírë vórima órë nó. Engë pahta wilwarin má nal. Hérë torma naitya ëa nar, fëa sa amorta amilessë. Mí sírë úcarë metta tar, oi vëa ilma engwa varnë.... not to forget SLOVIO Brat kozxa dusxijm ona mi, vi ulca ovocx scxastie tut. Sos to mlodica premnog svekrotec, bez es ribaf premnog. Des to malju robijt zapalka. Divajm cxesajut dom on, oni on insxto pomocijt. On vse ostaj mezxu usmehili, detes gotovit kazahzem on eda. Iskate zapalit ekonomju om sol, es podpor zveris zxiznuf oni. Glosuf mlodju vcxera dva ti, podpor politju tof to..... not to forget SONA Ine dite giuma akama ta, kini pogin amadaci co vio. Imi agaden finyuri tu. Ino ne amio ilocio. Ma itone nedini ika, visu boro purojen on jio. Aga cagun tebin iraxin zu. Tu aci pana denda pekaba.......... not to forget TOKIPONA unpa utala ni jan, vi kule utala ike. ale jaki awen nasa mu, ni nena suwi sike mod, ale linja kulupu ko. vi waso sina oko, ni pipi seli wawa ike. vt anu loje monsi. ale mi olin toki seli, en pipi prep anu. li kasi utala akesi oth, en pipi unpa ali. kasi nanpa pi kin, mama pilin... not to forget VOLAPUK Si finots panemon pösodis lif, fat fa igleipom telans ulelifikom. Beg po blufön klotem. Pas abel begom ün. Mö moö flapön lügons utanes. Elaboms getedön fut fa. Daifafideds.......... not to forget L33tspeak P1x y4 fr33) 5umm4|213z, 1nf0 1nd1c473z0r 4s z33, iz d0nT F1lt3r INt3r35+3d vve. Da @R3 p@gE$ 3|53wh3r3. FOr da tH4T wIlL pR0dUc+, @nD 0R j00'|| 3n4b|3d,. Kl1x 3nT3R 5O f4q. 54y, f34tUr3 t0 fOr, y4 p1x |-|@v3 r35ul7, INFoRm4T10N, 534r(h 717|3z c0mm4ndz 1T H45......... not to forget CORTIGO MORSE "-··· ···-- ····· ··· · ·-· -- ····· ·-·-·- ··--·· -·-· --··· ---·· --- · -- ·-·· ····· -·- -· --- ·--- ----· --- -- ·-·· ····- ---·· - ·-·· ··--·· --- ···· ·-·· -- -·- ·· --· ----- ·---- --··· -- --- ·--· -·-- ·····".... not to forget EBREO AND not to forget ETC etcetcetc etcetcEtcetc etc etc etceEtctcetcetcetc etc etcetceEtctcetcetc, etc .Etc etcetc etcetcetc etcetcEtcetcetcetc.. > FYI: > > In fact, Sanskrit has never been the spoken language of > any people, anywhere. > > There are no bija mantras mentioned in Rig Veda, and no > bija mantras are found in any Vedic Literature. > > There is a lot of information about Sanskrit coming out > of Texas lately, some of it is true and some of it is > just plain misleading. > > However, in reality, there are not that many ordinary > folks around here who can read Sanskrit or understand it, > much less recite the nicknames of all the devas in a > foreign tongue! > > We depend on hearsay for most of our information, usually > overhearing phrases at camp-meets. A few bhogis like to > read newsgroups on the Internet and post by day, but many > of us adepts do not even like to use overseas languages > for communication among ourselves, preferring instead our > own native Tex-Mex dialect, called Lingo, which is ideally > suited to household life. > > However, a lot of folks around here are bi-lingual to a > certain degree. In fact, San Antonio has been described > as one of the most diverse ethnic cities in the U.S. I > guess that is why they call that amusement park 'Six Flags > Over Texas'. LoL! > > Anyway, we local yokels aproppriate our phrases from Yaqui, > Spanish, English, German, and French words. In addition, > we make use of a lot of place names that we ripped off > from the native indigenous population, such as Pontiac, > Taos, and Milwaukee. > > This notwithstanding, there has been an increased interest > in Oriental vernaculars, such as Hindi and Tibetan, due to > an influx of tourists, immigrants, and International > students. > > The resident Swami here is said to be able to speak five > languages, including fluent English and Urdu. The Swami, > who recently gave a speech in Hindi, has an interesting > habit of omitting certain dipthongs when using Sanskrit > words, e.g. Yog for Yoga, etc. > > In addition, there has been an increased interest in > learning Sanskrit on this very newsgroup. One informant, > sometimes posting under the handle 'Chief Shitting Bull', > claims to have a special apprenticeship with a certain > 'Mullquist', who is reputed to be somewhat of a linguist > somewhere up in Nokialand. > > Apparently, the language called Sanskrit was not spoken > by the Vedic population of ancient India, being a dead > language akin to Latin, and used solely for oral liturgical > purposes by priests during the Homa ceremony. > > Written Sanskrit was invented later by Panini, who lived > long after the Vedas were first recited by the ancient > rishis and sages. It is a fact, that the first known > written vernacular in India is from the pillar of King > Ashoka at Sarnath, and it is not written in Sanskrit. >
