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[mithridates]

Can you read this? Does it look weird?

http://www.slovio.com/1/tekstis/index.html

[I_Am_Wrong]

the romanization there is so-so. Why?

[mithridates]

It's supposed to be a pan-slavic constructed language that they can all understand at first sight. No irregular verbs or grammar, easy to learn, that sort of thing. I don't know any Russian though so I was curious whether it actually made sense without having studied it before. Pretty much the Slavic version of Interlingua.

[dogbert]

At first sight, I thought it was a conlang.

[funplanet]

I speak Russian and Ukrainian...it's fairly easy...could work well with a Bulgarian, Czech, Slovakian, etc speaker as well

[mithridates]

Good to hear; that's what I thought. Understandable but a bit annoying. From other people I've heard that it looks most like Russian and Bulgarian but I know neither and wanted to check. They also said that using -s or -is for the plural didn't really impress them. This language was apparently made in 2001.

[Wrench]

Its also understandable in Polish.. Sound more Ukranian tho.

[midgic]

hey funplanet....is that Charlie Watts in your avatar?

man, that's a splendid shot of Charlie...

[mithridates]

I assume the annoying bit would be kind of like this (just off the top of my head):

He have many mouses, and like its. Mouses runned to far and he is become sad. Then he thinks maybe cry but mouses was come back and now he be glucklich.

Is that kind of what it looks like to all you Slavic speakers?

[Babayaga]

To a speaker of Russian and Ukrainian, it's annoying to read the passage in a Latin alphabet. I dislike transliteration, it's really difficult to read,so I didn't bother to read the whole thing.

Otherwise, it was easy to understand and seemed more like Czech to me---it seemed to have the archaic forms that Czech has.

[mithridates]

Here it is in Cyrillic (same passage):

[canuckistan]