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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: What language is this?
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References: <32D3ED24.25B1@post3.tele.dk> <5alc79$8ep@library.airnews.net> <k.e.arnesen-0501971517300001@xyplex40.uio.no> <32CE6626.A35@online.no> <32d43a86.7424535@news.mindspring.com> <5au60g$fdl@news.alaska.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:52:47 GMT
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In a previous article, porse@post3.tele.dk (Sten Porse) says:

>71064.332@compuserve.com wrote:
>> 
>> Airlines not only purchase, but also lease, aircraft from other lines.  I
>> found a similar inscription in Icelandic on an Alaska Airlines plane once!
>> (I don't know why it wasn't in any other Scandinavian languages...)
>> 
>> George Partlow.......Delegito de UEA en la alaska regurbo, Juneau (Usono)
>> retposxto cxe: <71064.332@compuserve.com>...Pensu terglobe, agu surloke!
>> Ekzistas nur 2 klasoj de homoj: tiuj kiuj opinias, ke ekzistas nur 2 klasoj
>> de homoj, kaj tiuj kiuj malsamopinias... (Clifford Partlow, 1966)
>
>This is definitely not any scandinavian language. In my opinion it was
>written i Volapuek.
>
>Sten Porse (dane)

What?!  The first paragraph is English, the second is Esperanto with a 
couple of English names and an Internet address thrown in.  Nothing 
remotely Volap|kish about any of it.  Or did you mean to cite the 
Afrikaans as Volap|k?
--
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