Everything you want to know about the Europanto

Everything you want to know about the Europanto

... but you dare not ask !

What is the Europanto ?

Europanto is a new language, born as a parody of the Esperanto. Probably you know that Esperanto is an artificial language that, according to someone, was to become a standard in international communications. But everybody knows that its supporter's forecasts didn't become true, and there are very few people that can talk in Esperanto.

So, from the ingenious (and a little crazy) mind of Diego Marani came the rigth opponent of the Esperanto, the funny Europanto, the only language that you can learn with no study. The creator himself gives us some examples of this. Here is a presentation of the new language:

NOTIZAAN DES LECTORES: Este test is èscrit in der erste overeuropese tongue: the Europanto. Ceci ist eine artificiele languag struktur that est uderstandibile by alle men qui pour le least know very mauvais French or tres bad English (...) Enjoy het !

He goes on with a paragraph from a chinese horoscope about the cat-fish year:

Mit der chinese horoscope, este is le jaar des piscekat y todos les piscekat will habe groote fortune. For les autres, der thinghen sein ein bishen more complicadas omdat el piscekat est un signo muy subdolous...

Obviously, everyone can write in Europanto. For example, a Web page could start in this way:
Welcome to mina maison-pagina ! Esta is a STRANGE Home Page, and je non quiero de scriverla en Anglais und so je will write en Europanto, a strange languag (created da ein fool italobelga) que est very mejo than Esperanto. This pagina està bajo costruction, porque je non know bien the wonderful TAGS que permettono tibi de build una beautiful pagina. Ecco aqui mina page, that je scriverò in drei segundos avec ein pulcher book de HTML, id est un Linguaggio Markuppato por la creation de Hyper Test... and so on !

Perhaps (or better CERTAINLY) the Europanto WON'T become the official european language, but we are sure that many people will enjoy it.
Now, the question is this: who in the world created a similar thing ?

Who did create the Europanto ?

"...the man talking in this way is Diego Marani (from Bruxelles, Belgium), who works as an interpreter at the European Union. His are, so, professional deformations..." (S.Bartezzaghi)

Marani, the inventor of the Europanto, defines his creation as "the first and the one language that everybody in Europe can understand and learn without studying. To talk in Europanto, you have simply to use your home language, inserting in your speech a little of foreign languages you know."

Who did spread it ?

Le Soir Illustré

Main cause of the spreading of Europanto is "The Illustrated Evening", a review printed in Belgium, for which Marani writes. Bartezzaghi tells us about the subject of his articles:

The well-known weekly review "Le Soir Illustre" asked Marani to write a column of "briko-politics", for the following reason: "Nowadays in the world there are absurde problems, and so Diego Marani will give his answers: absurde, of course.". The first article was dedicated to the "mad cow": "Komme de gekke vaches problema in der mundo definitly resolveren". The most embarassing fact is that the reades started to write mail in Europanto to the review's director, and of course he gives Marani the letters, to which he has to reply...
(S.Bartezzaghi, "Scrivo Europanto e pure Galattico", i.e. "I write Europanto and even Galactic", from La Stampa , June 19, 1997)

Other new languages

Marani isn't the one inventing unknown languages. There is something of MORE STRANGE and more crazy of the Europanto, named Galactic Volgar. According to the news collected by Bartezzaghi and his reader Giuliano Giunchi, about ten years ago in Forli' (Italy) or in the neighborhoods, the
Universal Poetry Contest Luigi Casadei, Won by Himself
took place. Here we find a special note for the "Verso piu' Diverso" (Most Different Verse). We don't know what that really means, but certainly there is nothing more different than the following poem, by Claudio Mancini, multi-specialized doctor from Castrocaro. The poem isn't written in Italian, but in Galactic Volgar:

Sineste varna molibdoni geno
utur senanzia gabur-
semen dighena tulminente morho
catan pirante stasa--
Iten dubini tuleminte satur *
Unante vagor solimunte sorho

Translation (in a more common galactic dialect):

We're drifting thru the stars
with no more hope,
at the opposite part of the sky,
our return is broken forever.
Why this impossible dream ?
We'll play the game of life, till the end...

The justification of the contest explains:
This Message that comes from so far away, tiny like a stone thrown in the cosmic depth, is the echo of the psychological abyss deep inside everyone...
Or better, talking like Marani: esto message che arriba de so lontano...

Another creator of new languages is MF (sorry, but he doesn't want to say his real name). It is impossible for us quote here the original text of his song. According to our information, MF often sings this song in a non-exisiting language that he invents on the moment, and for which he gives a fake translation from African, playing a joke to people listening...

Stop ! Let me sail away !