Keep the Red Flag Flying High

Nopiltzé, nocōzqué, noquetzalé, ōtiyōl, ōtitlācat, ōtimotlālticpacquīxtīco; in ītlālticpac in totēucyo ōmitzyōcox, ōmitzpīc ōmitztlācatilî in īpalnemōhuani in Dios. Auh mīxco mocpac ōtitlachixquê in timonānhuān, in timotàhuān, īhuān in māhuìhuān, in motlàhuān, in mohuānyōlquê ō mīxco ō mocpac tlachixquê ōchōcaquê mopampatzinco in ic ōtiyōl, in ic ōtitlōcat in tlālticpac.

My dear child, my jewel, my beautiful feather, you were conceived, you were born, you came upon the earth. It’s Our Lord, it’s God, our creator, who formed and created you and placed you on the earth. We considered you, we who are your mother and father; your aunts and uncles, your relatives also considered you, and they groaned and were touched when you were born and came to the world.

Some auxlang banter:

Esperanto: Tio estas volapukaĵo al mi

Literal translation: This is Volapük to me

English equivalent: It’s Greek to me

What’s odd is that the Danes appear to agree with the Esperantists (I am aware those are not necessarily two mutually exclusive sets of people).

Danish: Det er det rene volapyk

Translation: That’s clear Volapük

ბაყაყი მყაყე წყალში ყიყინებს

baq’aq’i mq’aq’e c’q’alši q’iq’inebs

/bɑqʼɑqʼi mqʼɑqʼɛ tsʼqʼɑlʃi qʼiqʼinɛbs/

The frog is croaking in the stagnant water

Dear Tumblrists,

I’ve just reorganised the top-of-the-blog links and tried to minimise the number of extra pages on each blog. On Idiomatick, this involved turning a few translation pages into actual blog posts. My apologies if this has spammed your feed. I’ve dated these new items as being posted when the Word files on my computer were last saved.

I found an amusing picture used to illustrate compound tenses in my Esperanto book:

La sinjoro estas falonta = The man is about to fall

La sinjoro estas falanta = The man is falling

La sinjoro estas falinta = The man has fallen

Source: p.118, John Cresswell and John Hartley, Teach Yourself Esperanto (The English Universities Press, 1959)

I’ve recently added an “ask me anything” page!

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I’ve a new post on my “Idiomatick” blog. Though not technically a linguistics post, hopefully it will still interest you.

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I also have a blog dedicated to a Word of the Day in various languages!

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