From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 04 02:28:40 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 04 May 2005 02:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DTGB9-0004xJ-Dj for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 02:28:27 -0700 Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.8]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DTGB4-0004wr-Jf for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 02:28:27 -0700 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r1.7.) id d.67.4439b274 (18403) for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 05:27:46 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: <67.4439b274.2fa9ef92@wmconnect.com> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 05:27:46 EDT Subject: [lojban] longest works in conlangs To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_67.4439b274.2fa9ef92_boundary" X-Mailer: 6.0 for Windows XP sub 52 X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 9919 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --part1_67.4439b274.2fa9ef92_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/4/2005 5:22:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, Robin via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > Anyone know what the longest work in Klingon is? Or Esperanto? Esperanto has translations (and originals) of thousands of works, as long as any natural language work. Klingon has no long native works, although translations exist of the Gilgamesh epic and two works by Shakespeare: Hamlet and Much ado about nothing. It's interesting that Lojban beats Klingon by a mile in this regard, as I believe that Klingon has many more fluent speakers than Lojban. stevo --part1_67.4439b274.2fa9ef92_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 5/4/2005 5:22:04 A= M Eastern Standard Time, Robin via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


Anyone know what the longes= t work in Klingon is?  Or Esperanto?  
Esperanto has translations (and originals) of thousands of works, as lon= g as any natural language work.

Klingon has no long native works, although translations exist of the Gil= gamesh epic and two works by Shakespeare:  Hamlet and Much ado about no= thing.

It's interesting that Lojban beats Klingon by a mile in this regard, as=20= I believe that Klingon has many more fluent speakers than Lojban.
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