Alfredo Carpineti wrote:
I would like to start a Wikipedia in a language called
Europanto. I
attached the Wiki article that explain it better than I can. Looking
foward for hearing from you.
Yours faithfully
Alfredo Carpineti
From
Wikipedia.org:
Europanto is a constructed language, a linguistic jest with a
hodge-podge vocabulary from many European languages.
[snip]
The single outstanding feature of Europanto is that
there are no fixed
rules -- merely a set of suggestions. This means that anybody can
start to speak Europanto immediately, on the other hand it is the
speaker's responsibility to draw on an assumed common vocabulary and
grammar between himself and the audience, to make himself understood.
Effectively, Europanto as it is used, tends to have a grammar much
like English, with words borrowed from various languages and adapted
to be easily understood.
[snip]
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!
I leave the details to whoever sets this as an assignment to their
computer science class.
-- Neil (IHNJ, IJLS "und voila!") Harris