Neo

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The Rapid Method of Neo (Arturo Alfandari) 1961
Na Patro ki sar in cel, siu ta nom santat. Venu ta regno. Siu fat ta vol, asben in cel, as on ter. Na shakida pan ne diu oje. E ne pardonu na debos, as nos pardonar na deberos. E no ne induku in tentado, mo ne fridu da mal.

Shakun shar i sentat k'un amik gada sar as un id solya, spansanda bril totume; e plus nos par, les nos elgar, fi d'et mond un palaso o un prizo.

Leo Moser wrote on 4/21/97 in an email message to Jay Bowks:

The work I have xerox copies of is: "Rapid Method of Neo" by Arturo Alfandari. (Bruxelles: Editions Brepols, 1967). It is a full description of an IAL in the Eo-Ido-Novial tradition. Grammar, Exercises, Conversation Guide, even prose readings and poems. The book was nicely bound, flexible, a pleasure to handle. A.A. did a LOT of work on this, founded the "Friends of Neo," had a warehouse full of books printed at his expense -- then he died. The books were pulped, his ideas forgotten.

This was no sloppy job by a crank, and would be useful to almost anyone interested in IALs. Neo is in many ways more imaginative than the other IALs cited, so there are a lot of ideas here. Some are weak, imo, but not all by any means. One of its particular features is brevity. Neo texts are much shorter than their English equivalents. There may be some flaws in all this brevity, but some seems quite real.

The novelty is sometimes dubious, but rather interesting. Some is downright Quixotic. PoS in not strongly marked, especially among nouns.

Much reminds one of Eo, Ido, or Novial. Yet:

The Netherlands is 'Nedo,' the Dutch language is 'Nedal.'
Foreign affairs is 'xenecos.'
'First of all' is 'toprime.'
'He's done in' becomes 'il kaput.'

A.A.'s dictionary is very complete, and never drab:

akimbo = mankoxa
bunkum = baliverno
cessation = ceso
doff = deweri
excommunicate = skomuniki
flamboyant = funka
daydream = sonyado
kill = ocidi
legislature = legiferio
munition = mun
needful = nesa
pawnbroker = pegprester
merry-go-round = volven
contumacious = kontumaxa
crotch = kruzopunt
pluperfect = plupaseo
quadraped = qarpeda
rapscallion = nilvala
seaworthy = marabla
topsyturvy = sursube
vaccine = vaxen
wapiti = wapitel
yucca = yuklo
zipper = glidel

The Neo dictionary is detailed -- probably the most complete of all IALs, save the very largest ones for Eo and Ido.

Some sentences:

Look before you leap = Miru pri salti.
Goodnight, Miss Wilson. = Bonnox, Damel Wilson.
What do you call this in Neo? = Kom namar vu eto nee?
Where are you going? = Qo tu?

It's none of my business. = Eto no ma eco.

Now, I don't believe the Neo project would ever have succeeded, but it has many imaginative things to contribute. It shakes up the vocabulary building that simply repeats Eo forms in new dress. For me, it seems very unfortunate that A.A.'s imaginative work on Neo is all but forgotten.

There is, of course, nothing much about it on the web.

Regards

Leo Moser

acadon@inreach.com.

A. Alfandari's NEO:

Soliloqo de Hamlet
"Si o no si, em lo qestyon: sar it plu nobla
Lo fleshos e l'atak subi d'un suert oltraga,
O kontra un ocean de penos preni l'armos,
Ze nili, z'endi?
E dan?... Morti. Dan nur dormi,
Plu nix.
Pe un dormo dan se dici ke nun l'endo
Del angosho del kor e del sennuma malos
Ke na karno eredar.
Eto sur vere un endo
Vozenda pe enta kor: morti, ya, morti, dormi

Dormi... Sonyi, ki spar? Ah, ik vo nos jukat!
Den, nel dormo de mort, e van nos or qitat
Na musha spol, ah, dan, ka sonyos por ne veni?

Dete nos ezitar, den ik venar lo dub
Ki prolongi ne far senende na pov viv.

Den ki suporti pur l'afronos de lo temp:
Torto del opreser, spico del vir orgola,
Afros de kontemnat amor, e de justis
Lo farso, del burist lo rogo, lo pedados
Ke sem dulda merit dal maldigna ricar?

Mentre kon lo puntel d'un kotilet so pur
Di qitanso a soself? E ki vur nok ayani,
Tan fardelos ol spal, sub lo pezo suveli
D'un vivo dora e lada... es it no sur pe tim
De somo do na mort, lo noskroprat rejon
Unde ni revenir kelun, rovar na vol
E suporti ne far lo malos ke nos ar
Qam flugi ver los ke nos usnum no konar?

Ete konshenso far de tot nos nur kodardas,
Lo natura kolor de na prima risolvo
Sub l'ombro palijar de na vil penso, e dete
Na volos divegar da sa koraga korso
E perdar lo nam d'aktado.

Shexpir

Leo Moser

Alfandari, 1961

NA PATRO

Na Patro ki sar in cel, siu ta nom santat.
Venu ta regno. Siu fat ta vol, asben in cel, as on ter.
Na shakida pan ne diu oje.
E ne pardonu na debos, as nos pardonar na deberos.
E no ne induku in tentado, mo ne fridu da mal.

From Arturo Alfandari's "Neo."

sent by Leo Moser

acadon@inreach.com

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Leo to Jay:

I haven't forgotten your inquiry on Neo.

Jay Bowks wrote:

>...
> Leo, could you point me to where I can get a ref. on Neo?
> I have posted inquiries to this w/out success in the past,
> and I really would like to know more about it.
>
> I know you're one to keep biblio's of these things so if
> you have any info I'd very much appreciate it, others may
> as well, I feel...
> Sincerely, Jay B.

> > > Some of the projects now virtually forgotten, such as Neo, were

> > far from defective. The web is changing all.

The work I have xerox copies of is: "Rapid Method of Neo" by Arturo
Alfandari. (Bruxelles: Editions Brepols, 1967). It is a full description
of an IAL in the Eo-Ido-Novial tradition. Grammar, Exercises,
Conversation Guide, even prose readings and poems. The book was nicely
bound, flexible, a pleasure to handle. A.A. did a LOT of work on this,
founded the "Friends of Neo," had a warehouse full of books printed at
his expense -- then he died. The books were pulped, his ideas forgotten.

This was no sloppy job by a crank, and would be useful to almost
anyone interested in IALs. Neo is in many ways more imaginative than
the other IALs cited, so there are a lot of ideas here. Some are weak,
imo, but not all by any means. One of its particular features is
brevity. Neo texts are much shorter than their English equivalents.

There may be some flaws in all this brevity, but some seems quite real.

The novelty is sometimes dubious, but rather interesting. Some
is downright Quixotic.

PoS in not strongly marked, especially among nouns.

Much reminds one of Eo, Ido, or Novial. Yet:

The Netherlands is 'Nedo,' the Dutch language is 'Nedal.'

Foreign affairs is 'xenecos.'

'First of all' is 'toprime.'

'He's done in' becomes 'il kaput.'

A.A.'s dictionary is very complete, and never drab:

The Neo dictionary is detailed -- probably the most complete of
all IALs, save the very largest ones for Eo and Ido.

Some sentences:

Look before you leap = Miru pri salti.
Goodnight, Miss Wilson. = Bonnox, Damel Wilson.
What do you call this in Neo? = Kom namar vu eto nee?
Where are you going? = Qo tu?
It's none of my business. = Eto no ma eco.

Now, I don't believe the Neo project would ever have succeeded,
but it has many imaginative things to contribute. It shakes up the
vocabulary building that simply repeats Eo forms in new dress. For
me, it seems very unfortunate that A.A.'s imaginative work on Neo
is all but forgotten.

There is, of course, nothing much about it on the web.

Regards

Leo Moser

acadon@inreach.com

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