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Thread #58351   Message #923598
Posted By: IanC
01-Apr-03 - 11:05 AM
Thread Name: Rule Britannia Irish?
Subject: RE: Rule Britannia Irish?
PP

I beg to differ.

According to Friedrich*, the Atlantean language would have changed very little in 12,000 years and the Southern dialect was highly regarded by the people of the West of the continent. Their ancient saying "Bingal bagra bondore" (literally translated as [shove it up the] section wide [and] dilate [it]) can be seen as a dialectic variant of the Southern "BingBangBong" (forgive my spelling).

Recent research anyway suggests that Wilson was talking out of the top of his hat, though I would argue that this suggests a quite unreasonable asumption about the position of his mouth. I can only show what I mean in this case by using the The Amazing Transparent-Atlantean-O-Matic Decryptor to provide an English gloss on the original text, which goes as follows:

[mi]n[lo][pu][s] / [so][gr]y[nt][y] / [wo][lt][,] / [bi][ng][ba][ng][bo][ng] / [di][nt]y[c] / f[lu][st][ry] / [ho][lt].

Unarguable, I'd say!

;-)

*Friedrich, Johannes, "Extinct Languages," (translated from German by Frank Gaynor) published by The Philosophical Library, New York, 1957.