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Re: History of constructed languages

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Friday, April 8, 2005, 13:46
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From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>

>> Here seems to be a better link, for those of you who, like me, couldn't >> access this page ("The page you are trying to access has not been >> published >> yet." :-(> tongue sticking out) >> >> http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/etext05/7rst110.txt >> >> The note is 167, and the "jargon" is: Jartaman exarx 'anapissonnai satra, >> uttered by a certain Pseudartabas, whose name seems to hint at something >> false. What's the rest of it mean? >> Not up on me ancient Greek, and too lazy to transcribe the characters for >> the Internet on-line dictionaries. >> >> Sally >> >> > > The name Artabas sure looks Persian too; _artavaan_ would > be "righteous" in Old Persian.
So, "falsely righteous!" Do you have a sense that the Persian is gibberish? Sally

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