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    /Last update:/ Sun Jun 12 20:24:10 2005

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[ PEACE <http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/> ] [ Poetry <#poetry> ] [ I
Can Eat Glass <#glass> ] [ The Quick Brown Fox <#quickbrownfox> ] [ HTML
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The subtitle above shows currency symbols of many lands. If they don't
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      Poetry

From the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem <http://www.ragweedforge.com/poems.html>
(Rune version):

    ᚠᛇᚻ᛫ᛒᛦᚦ᛫ᚠᚱᚩᚠᚢᚱ᛫ᚠᛁᚱᚪ᛫ᚷᛖᚻᚹᛦᛚᚳᚢᛗ
    ᛋᚳᛖᚪᛚ᛫ᚦᛖᚪᚻ᛫ᛗᚪᚾᚾᚪ᛫ᚷᛖᚻᚹᛦᛚᚳ᛫ᛗᛁᚳᛚᚢᚾ᛫ᚻᛦᛏ᛫ᛞᚫᛚᚪᚾ
    ᚷᛁᚠ᛫ᚻᛖ᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛖ᛫ᚠᚩᚱ᛫ᛞᚱᛁᚻᛏᚾᛖ᛫ᛞᚩᛗᛖᛋ᛫ᚻᛚᛇᛏᚪᚾ᛬

From Laȝamon's/ Brut <http://mesl.itd.umich.edu/b/brut/>/ (/The
Chronicles of England/, Middle English, West Midlands):

    An preost wes on leoden, Laȝamon was ihoten
    He wes Leovenaðes sone -- liðe him be Drihten.
    He wonede at Ernleȝe at æðelen are chirechen,
    Uppen Sevarne staþe, sel þar him þuhte,
    Onfest Radestone, þer he bock radde. 

(The third letter in the author's name is Yogh, missing from many fonts;
CLICK HERE <st-erkenwald.html> for another Middle English sample with
some explanation of letters and encoding).

From the Tagelied of *Wolfram von Eschenbach*
<http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/eschenba.htm> (Middle High German):

    Sîne klâwen durh die wolken sint geslagen,
    er stîget ûf mit grôzer kraft,
    ich sih in grâwen tägelîch als er wil tagen,
    den tac, der im geselleschaft
    erwenden wil, dem werden man,
    den ich mit sorgen în verliez.
    ich bringe in hinnen, ob ich kan.
    sîn vil manegiu tugent michz leisten hiez.

Some lines of *Odysseus Elytis*
<http://users.hol.gr/~artemis/odysseas_elytis.htm> (Greek):

    Τη γλώσσα μου έδωσαν ελληνική
    το σπίτι φτωχικό στις αμμουδιές του Ομήρου.
    Μονάχη έγνοια η γλώσσα μου στις αμμουδιές του Ομήρου.

    από το Άξιον Εστί
    του Οδυσσέα Ελύτη

The first stanza of *Pushkin*
<http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Eleong/Russkaya%20Literatura/Aleksandr%20Sergeevich%20Pushkin.htm>'s
Bronze Horseman (Russian):

    На берегу пустынных волн
    Стоял он, дум великих полн,
    И вдаль глядел. Пред ним широко
    Река неслася; бедный чёлн
    По ней стремился одиноко.
    По мшистым, топким берегам
    Чернели избы здесь и там,
    Приют убогого чухонца;
    И лес, неведомый лучам
    В тумане спрятанного солнца,
    Кругом шумел.

*Å ota Rustaveli*
<http://www.compling.hu-berlin.de/~johannes/mxedruli/>'s Veṗxis
Ṭq̇aosani, ̣︡Th, The Knight in the Tiger's Skin (Georgian):

    ვეპხის ტყაოსანი შოთა რუსთაველი

    ღმერთსი შემვედრე, ნუთუ კვლა დამხსნას სოფლისა შრომასა, ცეცხლს, წყალსა
    და მიწასა, ჰაერთა თანა მრომასა; მომცნეს ფრთენი და აღვფრინდე,
    მივჰხვდე მას ჩემსა ნდომასა, დღისით და ღამით ვჰხედვიდე მზისა ელვათა
    კრთომაასა.

Tamil poetry of Cupiramaniya Paarathiyar, சுப்ரமணிய பாரதியார் (1882-1921):

    யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே தமிழ்மொழி போல் இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம்,
    பாமரராய் விலங்குகளாய், உலகனைத்தும் இகழ்ச்சிசொலப் பான்மை கெட்டு,
    நாமமது தமிழரெனக் கொண்டு இங்கு வாழ்ந்திடுதல் நன்றோ? சொல்லீர்!


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      I Can Eat Glass

And from the sublime to the ridiculous, here is a certain phrase¹
<#notes> in an assortment of languages:

   1. *Sanskrit*: काचं शक्नोम्यत्तुम् । नोपहिनस्ति माम् ॥
   2. *Sanskrit* /(standard transcription):/ kācaṃ śaknomyattum;
      nopahinasti mām.
   3. *Classical Greek*: ὕαλον ϕαγεῖν δύναμαι· τοῦτο οὔ με βλάπτει.
   4. *Greek*: Μπορώ να φάω σπασμένα γυαλιά χωρίς να πάθω τίποτα.
      *Etruscan*: (NEEDED)
   5. *Latin*: Vitrum edere possum; mihi non nocet.
   6. *Old French*: Je puis mangier del voirre. Ne me nuit.
   7. *French*: Je peux manger du verre, ça ne me fait pas de mal.
   8. *Provençal / Occitan*: Pòdi manjar de veire, me nafrariá pas.
   9. *Québécois*: J'peux manger d'la vitre, ça m'fa pas mal.
  10. *Walloon*: Dji pou magnî do vêre, çoula m' freut nén må.
      *Champenois*: (NEEDED)
      *Lorrain*: (NEEDED)
  11. *Picard*: Ch'peux mingi du verre, cha m'foé mie n'ma.
      *Corsican*: (NEEDED)
  12. *Kreyòl Ayisyen*: Mwen kap manje vè, li pa blese'm.
  13. *Basque*: Kristala jan dezaket, ez dit minik ematen.
  14. *Catalan*: Puc menjar vidre que no em fa mal.
  15. *Spanish*: Puedo comer vidrio, no me hace daño.
  16. *Aragones*: Puedo minchar beire, no me'n fa mal .
  17. *Galician*: Eu podo xantar cristais e non cortarme.
  18. *Portuguese*: Posso comer vidro, não me faz mal.
  19. *Brazilian Portuguese* (7 <#notes>): Posso comer vidro, não me
      machuca.
  20. *Caboverdiano*: M' podê cumê vidru, ca ta maguâ-m'.
  21. *Papiamentu*: Ami por kome glas anto e no ta hasimi daño.
  22. *Italian*: Posso mangiare il vetro e non mi fa male.
  23. *Milanese*: Sôn bôn de magnà el véder, el me fa minga mal.
  24. *Roman*: Me posso magna' er vetro, e nun me fa male.
  25. *Napoletano*: M' pozz magna' o'vetr, e nun m' fa mal.
  26. *Sicilian*: Puotsu mangiari u vitru, nun mi fa mali.
  27. *Venetian*: Mi posso magnare el vetro, no'l me fa mae.
  28. *Zeneise* /(Genovese):/ Pòsso mangiâ o veddro e o no me fà mâ.
      *Rheto-Romance / Romansch*: (NEEDED)
      *Romany / Tsigane*: (NEEDED)
  29. *Romanian*: Pot să mănânc sticlă și ea nu mă rănește.
  30. *Esperanto*: Mi povas manĝi vitron, ĝi ne damaĝas min.
      *Pictish*: (NEEDED)
      *Breton*: (NEEDED)
  31. *Cornish*: Mý a yl dybry gwéder hag éf ny wra ow ankenya.
  32. *Welsh*: Dw i'n gallu bwyta gwydr, 'dyw e ddim yn gwneud dolur i mi.
  33. *Manx Gaelic*: Foddym gee glonney agh cha jean eh gortaghey mee.
  34. *Old Irish* /(Ogham):/ ᚛᚛ᚉᚑᚅᚔᚉᚉᚔᚋ ᚔᚈᚔ ᚍᚂᚐᚅᚑ ᚅᚔᚋᚌᚓᚅᚐ᚜
  35. *Old Irish* /(Latin):/ Con·iccim ithi nglano. Ním·géna.
  36. *Irish*: Is féidir liom gloinne a ithe. Ní dhéanann sí dochar ar
      bith dom.
  37. *Scottish Gaelic*: S urrainn dhomh gloinne ithe; cha ghoirtich i mi.
  38. *Anglo-Saxon* /(Runes):/ ᛁᚳ᛫ᛗᚨᚷ᛫ᚷᛚᚨᛋ᛫ᛖᚩᛏᚪᚾ᛫ᚩᚾᛞ᛫ᚻᛁᛏ᛫ᚾᛖ᛫ᚻᛖᚪᚱᛗᛁᚪᚧ᛫ᛗᛖ᛬
  39. *Anglo-Saxon* /(Latin):/ Ic mæg glæs eotan ond hit ne hearmiað me.
  40. *Middle English*: Ich canne glas eten and hit hirtiþ me nouȝt.
  41. *English*: I can eat glass and it doesn't hurt me.
  42. *English* /(IPA):/ [aɪ kæn iːt glɑːs ænd ɪt dɐz nɒt hɜːt miː]
      (Received Pronunciation)
  43. *English* /(Braille):/ ⠊⠀⠉⠁⠝⠀⠑⠁⠞⠀⠛⠇⠁⠎⠎⠀⠁⠝⠙⠀⠊⠞⠀⠙⠕⠑⠎⠝⠞⠀⠓⠥⠗⠞⠀⠍⠑
  44. *Lalland Scots / Doric*: Ah can eat gless, it disnae hurt us.
      *Glaswegian*: (NEEDED)
  45. *Gothic* (4 <#notes>): 𐌼𐌰𐌲 𐌲𐌻𐌴𐍃 𐌹̈𐍄𐌰𐌽, 𐌽𐌹 𐌼𐌹𐍃 𐍅𐌿
      𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌹𐌸.
  46. *Old Norse* /(Runes):/ ᛖᚴ ᚷᛖᛏ ᛖᛏᛁ ᚧ ᚷᛚᛖᚱ ᛘᚾ ᚦᛖᛋᛋ ᚨᚧ ᚡᛖ ᚱᚧᚨ ᛋᚨᚱ
  47. *Old Norse* /(Latin):/ Ek get etið gler án þess að verða sár.
  48. *Norsk / Norwegian (Nynorsk):* Eg kan eta glas utan å skada meg.
  49. *Norsk / Norwegian (Bokmål):* Jeg kan spise glass uten å skade meg.
      *Føroyskt / Faroese*: (NEEDED)
  50. *Íslenska / Icelandic*: Ég get etið gler án þess að meiða mig.
  51. *Svenska / Swedish*: Jag kan äta glas utan att skada mig.
  52. *Dansk / Danish*: Jeg kan spise glas, det gør ikke ondt på mig.
  53. *Soenderjysk*: Æ ka æe glass uhen at det go mæ naue.
  54. *Frysk / Frisian*: Ik kin glês ite, it docht me net sear.
  55. *Nederlands / Dutch*: Ik kan glas eten, het doet mij geen kwaad.
  56. *Kirchröadsj/Bôchesserplat*: Iech ken glaas èèse, mer 't deet
      miech jing pieng.
  57. *Afrikaans*: Ek kan glas eet, maar dit doen my nie skade nie.
  58. *Lëtzebuergescht / Luxemburgish*: Ech kan Glas iessen, daat deet
      mir nët wei.
  59. *Deutsch / German*: Ich kann Glas essen, ohne mir weh zu tun.
  60. *Ruhrdeutsch*: Ich kann Glas verkasematuckeln, ohne dattet mich
      wat jucken tut.
  61. *Lausitzer Mundart* ("Lusatian"): Ich koann Gloos assn und doas
      dudd merr ni wii.
  62. *Odenwälderisch*: Iech konn glaasch voschbachteln ohne dass es mir
      ebbs daun doun dud.
  63. *Sächsisch / Saxon*: 'sch kann Glos essn, ohne dass'sch mer wehtue.
  64. *Pfälzisch*: Isch konn Glass fresse ohne dasses mer ebbes ausmache
      dud.
  65. *Schwäbisch / Swabian*: I kå Glas frässa, ond des macht mr nix!
  66. *Bayrisch / Bavarian*: I koh Glos esa, und es duard ma ned wei.
  67. *Allemannisch*: I kaun Gloos essen, es tuat ma ned weh.
  68. *Schwyzerdütsch*: Ich chan Glaas ässe, das tuet mir nöd weeh.
  69. *Hungarian*: Meg tudom enni az üveget, nem lesz tőle bajom.
  70. *Suomi / Finnish*: Voin syödä lasia, se ei vahingoita minua.
  71. *Sami (Northern)*: Sáhtán borrat lása, dat ii leat bávččas.
  72. *Erzian*: Мон ярсан суликадо, ды зыян эйстэнзэ а ули.
      *Karelian*: (NEEDED)
      *Vepsian*: (NEEDED)
      *Votian*: (NEEDED)
      *Livonian*: (NEEDED)
  73. *Estonian*: Ma võin klaasi süüa, see ei tee mulle midagi.
  74. *Latvian*: Es varu ēst stiklu, tas man nekaitē.
  75. *Lithuanian*: Aš galiu valgyti stiklą ir jis manęs nežeidžia
      *Old Prussian*: (NEEDED)
      *Sorbian* (Wendish): (NEEDED)
  76. *Czech*: Mohu jíst sklo, neublíží mi.
  77. *Slovak*: Môžem jesť sklo. Nezraní ma.
  78. *Polska / Polish*: Mogę jeść szkło i mi nie szkodzi.
  79. *Slovenian:* Lahko jem steklo, ne da bi mi Å¡kodovalo.
  80. *Croatian*: Ja mogu jesti staklo i ne boli me.
  81. *Serbian* /(Latin):/ Mogu jesti staklo a da mi ne Å¡kodi.
  82. *Serbian* /(Cyrillic):/ Могу јести стакло а да ми не шкоди.
  83. *Macedonian:* Можам да јадам стакло, а не ме штета.
  84. *Russian*: Я могу есть стекло, оно мне не вредит.
  85. *Belarusian* /(Cyrillic):/ Я магу есці шкло, яно мне не шкодзіць.
  86. *Belarusian* /(Lacinka):/ Ja mahu jeści škło, jano mne ne škodzić.
  87. *Ukrainian*: Я можу їсти шкло, й воно мені не пошкодить.
  88. *Bulgarian*: Мога да ям стъкло, то не ми вреди.
  89. *Georgian*: მინას ვჭამ და არა მტკივა.
  90. *Armenian*: Կրնամ ապակի ուտել և ինծի անհանգիստ չըներ։
  91. *Albanian*: Unë mund të ha qelq dhe nuk më gjen gjë.
  92. *Turkish*: Cam yiyebilirim, bana zararı dokunmaz.
  93. *Turkish* /(Ottoman):/ جام ييه بلورم بڭا ضررى طوقونمز
  94. *Bangla / Bengali*: আমি কাঁচ খেতে পারি, তাতে আমার কোনো ক্ষতি হয় না।
  95. *Marathi*: मी काच खाऊ शकतो, मला ते दुखत नाही.
  96. *Hindi*: मैं काँच खा सकता हूँ, मुझे उस से कोई पीडा नहीं होती.
  97. *Tamil*: நான் கண்ணாடி சாப்பிடுவேன், அதனால் எனக்கு ஒரு கேடும் வராது.
  98. *Urdu*(2) <#notes>: میں کانچ کھا سکتا ہوں اور مجھے تکلیف نہیں ہوتی ۔
  99. *Pashto*(2) <#notes>: زه شيشه خوړلې شم، هغه ما نه خوږوي
 100. *Farsi / Persian*: .من می توانم بدونِ احساس درد شيشه بخورم
 101. *Arabic*(2) <#notes>: أنا قادر على أكل الزجاج و هذا لا يؤلمني.
      *Aramaic*: (NEEDED)
 102. *Hebrew*(2) <#notes>: אני יכול לאכול זכוכית וזה לא מזיק לי.
 103. *Yiddish*(2) <#notes>: איך קען עסן גלאָז און עס טוט מיר נישט װײ.
      *Judeo-Arabic*: (NEEDED)
      *Ladino*: (NEEDED)
      *Gǝʼǝz*: (NEEDED)
      *Amharic*: (NEEDED)
 104. *Twi*: Metumi awe tumpan, ɜnyɜ me hwee.
 105. *Hausa* (/Latin/): Inā iya taunar gilāshi kuma in gamā lāfiyā.
 106. *Hausa* (/Ajami/) (2) <#notes>: إِنا إِىَ تَونَر غِلَاشِ كُمَ إِن غَمَا لَافِىَا
 107. *Yoruba*(3) <#notes>: Mo lè je̩ dígí, kò ní pa mí lára.
 108. *(Ki)Swahili*: Naweza kula bilauri na sikunyui.
 109. *Malay*: Saya boleh makan kaca dan ia tidak mencederakan saya.
 110. *Tagalog*: Kaya kong kumain nang bubog at hindi ako masaktan.
 111. *Chamorro*: Siña yo' chumocho krestat, ti ha na'lalamen yo'.
 112. *Javanese*: Aku isa mangan beling tanpa lara.
      *Burmese*: (NEEDED)
 113. *Vietnamese (quốc ngữ)*: Tôi có thể ăn thủy tinh mà không hại gì.
 114. *Vietnamese (nôm)* (4 <#notes>): 些 𣎏 世 咹 水 晶 𦓡 空 𣎏 害 咦
      *Khmer*: (NEEDED)
      *Lao*: (NEEDED)
 115. *Thai*: ฉันกินกระจกได้ แต่มันไม่ทำให้ฉันเจ็บ
 116. *Mongolian* /(Cyrillic):/ Би шил идэй чадна, надад хортой биш
 117. *Mongolian* /(Classic) (5 <#notes>):/ ᠪᠢ ᠰᠢᠯᠢ ᠢᠳᠡᠶᠦ ᠴᠢᠳᠠᠨᠠ ᠂ ᠨᠠᠳᠤᠷ
      ᠬᠣᠤᠷᠠᠳᠠᠢ ᠪᠢᠰᠢ
      *Dzongkha*: (NEEDED)
      *Nepali*: (NEEDED)
 118. *Tibetan*: ཤེལ་སྒོ་ཟ་ནས་ང་ན་གི་མ་རེད།
 119. *Chinese*: 我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体。
 120. *Chinese* (Traditional): 我能吞下玻璃而不傷身體。
 121. *Taiwanese*(6) <#notes>: Góa ē-tàng chia̍h po-lê, mā bē tio̍h-siong.
 122. *Japanese*: 私はガラスを食べられます。それは私を傷つけません。
 123. *Korean*: 나는 유리를 먹을 수 있어요. 그래도 아프지 않아요
 124. *Bislama*: Mi save kakae glas, hemi no save katem mi.
 125. *Hawaiian*: Hiki iaʻu ke ʻai i ke aniani; ʻaʻole nō lā au e ʻeha.
 126. *Marquesan*: E koʻana e kai i te karahi, mea ʻā, ʻaʻe hauhau.
 127. *Chinook Jargon:* Naika məkmək kakshət labutay, pi weyk ukuk
      munk-sik nay.
 128. *Navajo*: Tsésǫʼ yishą́ągo bííníshghah dóó doo shił neezgai da.
      *Cherokee* /(and Cree, Ojibwa, Inuktitut, and other Native
      American languages):/ (NEEDED)
      *Garifuna*: (NEEDED)
      *Gullah*: (NEEDED)
 129. *Lojban*: mi kakne le nu citka le blaci .iku'i le se go'i na xrani mi
 130. *Nórdicg*: Ljœr ye caudran créneþ ý jor cẃran. 

/(Additions, corrections, completions,/ /gratefully accepted/
<mailto:hide@address.com>/.)/

For testing purposes, some of these are repeated in a *monospace
font* . . .

   1. Euro Symbol: €.
   2. Greek: Μπορώ να φάω σπασμένα γυαλιά χωρίς να πάθω τίποτα.
   3. Íslenska / Icelandic: Ég get etið gler án þess að meiða mig.
   4. Polish: Mogę jeść szkło, i mi nie szkodzi.
   5. Romanian: Pot să mănânc sticlă și ea nu mă rănește.
   6. Ukrainian: Я можу їсти шкло, й воно мені не пошкодить.
   7. Armenian: Կրնամ ապակի ուտել և ինծի անհանգիստ չըներ։
   8. Georgian: მინას ვჭამ და არა მტკივა.
   9. Hindi: मैं काँच खा सकता हूँ, मुझे उस से कोई पीडा नहीं होती.
  10. Hebrew(2) <#notes>: אני יכול לאכול זכוכית וזה לא מזיק לי.
  11. Yiddish(2) <#notes>: איך קען עסן גלאָז און עס טוט מיר נישט װײ.
  12. Arabic(2) <#notes>: أنا قادر على أكل الزجاج و هذا لا يؤلمني.
  13. Japanese: 私はガラスを食べられます。それは私を傷つけません。
  14. Thai: ฉันกินกระจกได้ แต่มันไม่ทำให้ฉันเจ็บ 

*Notes:*

   1. The "I can eat glass" phrase and initial translations (about 30 of
      them) were borrowed from Ethan Mollick's I Can Eat Glass
      <http://hcs.harvard.edu/~igp/glass.html> page (which disappeared
      on or about June 2004) and converted to UTF-8. Since Ethan's
      original page is gone, I should mention that his purpose was offer
      travelers a phrase they could use in any country that would
      command a certain kind of respect, or at least get attention. See
      Credits <#credits> for the many additional contributions since
      then. When submitting new entries, the word "hurt" (if you have a
      choice) is used in the sense of "cause harm", "do damage", or
      "bother", rather than "inflict pain" or "make sad". In this vein
      Otto Stolz comments (as do others further down; personally I think
      it's better for the purpose of this page to have extra entries
      and/or to show a greater repertoire of characters than it is to
      enforce a strict interpretation of the word "hurt"!):

          This is the meaning I have translated to the Swabian dialect.
          However, I just have noticed that most of the German variants
          translate the "inflict pain" meaning. The German example
          should rather read:

              "Ich kann Glas essen ohne mir zu schaden." 

          (The comma fell victim to the 1996 orthographic reform, cf.
          http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/e3-1.html#P76.

          You may wish to contact the contributors of the following
          translations to correct them:

              * Lëtzebuergescht / Luxemburgish: Ech kan Glas iessen,
                daat deet mir nët wei.
              * Lausitzer Mundart ("Lusatian"): Ich koann Gloos assn und
                doas dudd merr ni wii.
              * Sächsisch / Saxon: 'sch kann Glos essn, ohne dass'sch
                mer wehtue.
              * Bayrisch / Bavarian: I koh Glos esa, und es duard ma ned
                wei.
              * Allemannisch: I kaun Gloos essen, es tuat ma ned weh.
              * Schwyzerdütsch: Ich chan Glaas ässe, das tuet mir nöd weeh. 

          In contrast, I deem the following translations *alright*:

              * Ruhrdeutsch: Ich kann Glas verkasematuckeln, ohne dattet
                mich wat jucken tut.
              * Pfälzisch: Isch konn Glass fresse ohne dasses mer ebbes
                ausmache dud.
              * Schwäbisch / Swabian: I kå Glas frässa, ond des macht mr
                nix! 

          (However, you could remove the commas, on account of
          http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/e3-1.html#P76 and
          http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/e3-1.html#P72, respectively.)

          I guess, also these examples translate the /wrong/ sense of
          "hurt", though I do not know these languages well enough to
          assert them definitely:

              * Nederlands / Dutch: Ik kan glas eten; het doet mij geen
                pijn. /(This one has been changed)/
              * Kirchröadsj/Bôchesserplat: Iech ken glaas èèse, mer 't
                deet miech jing pieng. 

          In the Romanic languages, the variations on "fa male" (it) are
          probably wrong, whilst the variations on "hace daño" (es) and
          "damaĝas" (Esperanto) are probably correct; "nocet" (la) is
          definitely right.

          The northern Germanic variants of "skada" are probably right,
          as are the Slavic variants of "škodi/шкоди" (se); however the
          Slavic variants of " boli" (hv) are probably wrong, as
          "bolena" means "pain/ache", IIRC.

      The numbering of the samples is arbitrary, done only to keep track
      of how many there are, and can change any time a new entry is
      added. The arrangement is also arbitrary but with some attempt to
      group related examples together. Note: All languages not listed
      are wanted, not just the ones that say (NEEDED).

   2. Correct right-to-left display of these languages depends on the
      capabilities of your browser. The period should appear on the
      left. In the monospace Yiddish example, the Yiddish digraphs
      should occupy one character cell.
   3. Yoruba: The third word is Latin letter small 'j' followed by small
      'e' with U+0329, Combining Vertical Line Below. This displays
      correctly only if your Unicode font includes the U+0329 glyph and
      your browser supports combining diacritical marks. The Indic
      examples also include combining sequences.
   4. Includes Unicode 3.1 (or later) characters beyond Plane 0.
   5. The Classic Mongolian example should be vertical, top-to-bottom
      and left-to-right. But such display is almost impossible. Also no
      font yet exists which provides the proper ligatures and positional
      variants for the characters of this script, which works somewhat
      like Arabic.
   6. Taiwanese is also known as Holo or Hoklo, and is related to
      Southern Min dialects such as Amoy. Contributed by Henry H.
      Tan-Tenn, who comments, "The above is the romanized version, in a
      script current among Taiwanese Christians since the mid-19th
      century. It was invented by British missionaries and saw use in
      hundreds of published works, mostly of a religious nature. Most
      Taiwanese did not know Chinese characters then, or at least not
      well enough to read. More to the point, though, a written standard
      using Chinese characters has never developed, so a significant
      minority of words are represented with different candidate
      characters, depending on one's personal preference or etymological
      theory. In this sentence, for example, "-tàng", "chia̍h", "mā" and
      "bē" are problematic using Chinese characters. "Góa" (I/me) and
      "po-lê" (glass) are as written in other Sinitic languages (e.g.
      Mandarin, Hakka)."
   7. Wagner Amaral of Pinese & Amaral Associados notes that the
      Brazilian Portuguese sentence for "I can eat glass" should be
      identical to the Portuguese one, as the word "machuca" means
      "inflict pain", or rather "injuries". The words "faz mal" would
      more correctly translate as "cause harm". 


      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      The Quick Brown Fox

The "I can eat glass" sentences do not necessarily show off the
orthography of each language to best advantage. In many alphabetic
written languages it is possible to include all (or most) letters (or
"special" characters) in a single (often nonsense) /pangram/. These were
traditionally used in typewriter instruction; now they are useful for
stress-testing computer fonts and keyboard input methods. Here are a few
examples (SEND MORE):

   1. *English:* The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   2. *Irish:* "An ḃfuil do ċroí ag bualaḋ ó ḟaitíos an ġrá a ṁeall lena
      ṗóg éada ó ṡlí do leasa ṫú?" "D'ḟuascail Íosa Úrṁac na hÓiġe
      Beannaiṫe pór Éava agus Áḋaiṁ."
   3. *Dutch:* Pa's wijze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct.
   4. *German: * Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren
      Zwerg. (1)
   5. *German: * Im finſteren Jagdſchloß am offenen Felsquellwaſſer
      patzte der affig-flatterhafte kauzig-höf‌liche Bäcker über ſeinem
      verſifften kniffligen C-Xylophon. (2)
   6. *Swedish:* Flygande bäckasiner söka strax hwila på mjuka tuvor.
   7. *Czech:* Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské kódy.
   8. *Slovak:* Starý kôň na hŕbe kníh žuje tíško povädnuté ruže, na
      stĺpe sa ďateľ učí kvákať novú ódu o živote.
   9. *Russian:* В чащах юга жил-был цитрус? Да, но фальшивый экземпляр!
      ёъ.
  10. *Bulgarian:* Жълтата дюля беше щастлива, че пухът, който цъфна,
      замръзна като гьон.
  11. *Sami (Northern):* Vuol Ruoŧa geđggiid leat máŋga luosa ja čuovžža.
  12. *Hungarian:* Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép.
  13. *Spanish:* El pingüino Wenceslao hizo kilómetros bajo exhaustiva
      lluvia y frío, añoraba a su querido cachorro.
  14. *Portuguese:* O próximo vôo à noite sobre o Atlântico, põe
      freqüentemente o único médico. (3)
  15. *French:* Les naïfs ægithales hâtifs pondant à Noël où il gèle
      sont sûrs d'être déçus et de voir leurs drôles d'œufs abîmés.
  16. *Esperanto:* Eĥoŝanĝo ĉiuĵaŭde.
  17. *Hebrew:* זה כיף סתם לשמוע איך תנצח קרפד עץ טוב בגן.
  18. *Japanese* (Hiragana):

          いろはにほへど　ちりぬるを
          わがよたれぞ　つねならむ
          うゐのおくやま　けふこえて
          あさきゆめみじ　ゑひもせず (4) 

*Notes:*

   1. Other phrases commonly used in Germany include: "Ein wackerer
      Bayer vertilgt ja bequem zwo Pfund Kalbshaxe" and, more recently,
      "Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern", but
      both lack umlauts and esszet. Previously, going for the shortest
      sentence that has all the umlauts and special characters, I had
      "Grüße aus Bärenhöfe (und Óechtringen)!" Acute accents are not
      used in native German words, so I was surprised to discover
      "Óechtringen" in the Deutsche Bundespost Postleitzahlenbuch
      <http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/misc/oechtringen.jpg> (Vorsicht!
      2.8MB JPG image). It's a small village in eastern Lower Saxony.
      The "oe" in this case turns out to be the Lower Saxon "lengthening
      e" (Dehnungs-e), which makes the previous vowel long (used in a
      number of Lower Saxon place names such as Soest and Itzehoe), not
      the "e" that indicates umlaut of the preceding vowel. Many thanks
      to the Óechtringen-Namenschreibungsuntersuchungskomitee (Alex
      Bochannek, Manfred Erren, Asmus Freytag, Christoph Päper, plus
      Werner Lemberg who serves as the
      Óechtringen-Namenschreibungsuntersuchungskomiteerechtschreibungsprüfer)
      for their relentless pursuit of the facts in this case.
      Conclusion: the accent almost certainly does not belong on this
      (or any other native German) word, but neither can it be dismissed
      as dirt on the page. To add to the mystery, it has been reported
      that other copies of the same edition of the PLZB do not show the
      accent!

   2. From Karl Pentzlin (Kochel am See, Bavaria, Germany): "This German
      phrase is suited for display by a Fraktur (broken letter) font. It
      contains: all common three-letter ligatures: ffi ffl fft and all
      two-letter ligatures required by the Duden for Fraktur
      typesetting: ch ck ff fi fl ft ll Å¿ch Å¿i Å¿Å¿ Å¿t tz (all in a manner
      such they are not part of a three-letter ligature), one example of
      f-l where German typesetting rules prohibit ligating (marked by a
      ZWNJ), and all German letters a...z, ä,ö,ü,ß, ſ [long s] (all in a
      manner such that they are not part of a two-letter Fraktur
      ligature)." Otto Stolz notes that "'Schloß' is now spelled
      'Schloss', in contrast to 'größer' (example 4) which has kept its
      'ß'. Fraktur has been banned from general use, in 1942, and long-s
      (Å¿) has ceased to be used with Antiqua (Roman) even earlier (the
      latest Antiqua-Å¿ I have seen is from 1913, but then I am no
      expert, so there may well be a later instance." Later Otto
      confirms the latter theory, "Now I've run across a book “Deutsche
      Rechtschreibung” (edited by Lutz Mackensen) from 1954 (my reprint
      is from 1956) that has kept the Antiqua-Å¿ in its dictionary part
      (but neither in the preface nor in the appendix)."

   3. Diaeresis is not used in Iberian Portuguese.

   4. From Yurio Miyazawa: "This poetry contains all the sounds in the
      Japanese language and used to be the first thing for children to
      learn in their Japanese class. The Hiragana version is
      particularly neat because it covers every character in the
      phonetic Hiragana character set." Yurio also sent the Kanji version:

          色は匂へど 散りぬるを
          我が世誰ぞ 常ならむ
          有為の奥山 今日越えて
          浅き夢見じ 酔ひもせず 

*Accented Cyrillic:*

/(This section contributed by Vladimir Marinov.)/

In Bulgarian it is desirable, customary, or in some cases required to
write accents over vowels. Unfortunately, no computer character sets
contain the full repertoire of accented Cyrillic letters. With Unicode,
however, it is possible to combine any Cyrillic letter with any
combining accent. The appearance of the result depends on the font and
the rendering engine. Here are two examples.

   1. Той видя бялата коса́ по главата и́ и ко́са на рамото и́, и ре́че да и́
      рече́: "Пара́та по́ па́ри от па́рата, не ща пари́!", но си поми́сли:
      "Хей, помисли́ си! А́ и́ река, а́ е скочила в тази река, която щеше да
      тече́, а не те́че."

   2. По пъ́тя пъту́ват кю́рди и югославя́ни. 


      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      HTML Features

Here is the Russian alphabet (uppercase only) coded in three different
ways, which should look identical:

   1. АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ   /(Literal UTF-8)/
   2. АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ   /(Decimal numeric character
      reference)/
   3. АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ   /(Hexadecimal numeric character
      reference)/ 

In another test, we use HTML language tags to distinguish Bulgarian,
Russian, and Serbian
<http://www.tiro.com/transfer/Serbian_Rendering.pdf>, which have
different italic forms for lowercase б, г, д, п, and/or т:

    *Bulgarian*:   	[ бгдпт ]   	[ /бгдпт/ ]   	/ Мога да ям стъкло и не
    ме боли./
    *Russian*: 	[ бгдпт ]   	[ /бгдпт/ ]   	/Я могу есть стекло, это мне
    не вредит./
    *Serbian*: 	[ бгдпт ]   	[ /бгдпт/ ]   	/Могу јести стакло а да ми
    не шкоди./


      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Credits, Tools, and Commentary

*Credits:*
    The "I can eat glass" phrase and the initial collection of
    translations: Ethan Mollick
    <http://hcs.harvard.edu/~igp/glass.html>. Transcription / conversion
    to UTF-8: Frank da Cruz. *Albanian:* Sindi Keesan. *Afrikaans:*
    Johan Fourie, Kevin Poalses. *Anglo Saxon:* Frank da Cruz. *Arabic:*
    Najib Tounsi. *Armenian:* Vaçe Kundakçı. *Belarusian:* Alexey
    Chernyak. *Bengali:* Somnath Purkayastha, Deepayan Sarkar.
    *Bislama:* Dan McGarry. *Braille:* Frank da Cruz. *Bulgarian:* Sindi
    Keesan, Guentcho Skordev, Vladimir Marinov. *Cabo Verde Creole:*
    Cláudio Alexandre Duarte. *Chinese:* Jack Soo, Wong Pui Lam.
    *Chinook Jargon:* David Robertson. *Cornish:* Chris Stephens.
    *Croatian:* Marjan Baće. *Czech:* Stanislav Pecha, Radovan Garabík.
    *Dutch:* Peter Gotink. Pim Blokland, Rob Daniel, Rob de Wit.
    *Erzian:* Jack Rueter. *Esperanto:* Franko Luin, Radovan Garabík.
    *Estonian:* Meelis Roos. *Farsi/Persian:* Payam Elahi. *Finnish:*
    Sampsa Toivanen. *French:* Luc Carissimo, Anne Colin du Terrail,
    Sean M. Burke. *Galician:* Laura Probaos. *Georgian:* Giorgi
    Lebanidze. *German:* Christoph Päper, Otto Stolz, Karl Pentzlin,
    Frank da Cruz. *Gothic:* Aurélien Coudurier. *Greek:* Ariel Glenn,
    Constantine Stathopoulos, Siva Nataraja. *Hebrew:* Jonathan Rosenne,
    Tal Barnea. *Hausa:* Malami Buba, Tom Gewecke. *Hawaiian:* na
    Hauʻoli Motta, Anela de Rego, Kaliko Trapp. *Hindi:* Shirish Kalele.
    *Hungarian:* András Rácz, Mark Holczhammer. *Icelandic:* Andrés
    Magnússon. *International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):* Siva Nataraja /
    Vincent Ramos. *Irish:* Michael Everson, Marion Gunn, James Kass,
    Curtis Clark. *Italian:* Thomas De Bellis. *Japanese:* Makoto
    Takahashi, Yurio Miyazawa. *Kirchröadsj:* Roger Stoffers. *Kreyòl:*
    Sean M. Burke. *Korean:* Jungshik Shin. *Lëtzebuergescht:* Stefaan
    Eeckels. *Lithuanian:* Gediminas Grigas. *Lojban:* Edward Cherlin.
    *Lusatian:* Ronald Schaffhirt. *Macedonian:* Sindi Keesan. *Malay:*
    Zarina Mustapha. *Manx:* Éanna Ó Brádaigh. *Marathi:* Shirish
    Kalele. *Marquesan:* Kaliko Trapp. *Middle English:* Frank da Cruz.
    *Milanese:* Marco Cimarosti. *Mongolian:* Tom Gewecke. *Napoletano:*
    Diego Quintano. *Navajo:* Tom Gewecke. *Nórdicg*
    <http://www.langmaker.com/db/mdl_nordicg.htm>: Yẃlyan Rott.
    *Norwegian:* Herman Ranes. *Odenwälderisch:* Alexander Heß. *Old
    Irish:* Michael Everson. *Old Norse:* Andrés Magnússon.
    *Papiamentu:* Bianca and Denise Zanardi. *Pashto:* N.R. Liwal.
    *Pfälzisch:* Dr. Johannes Sander. *Picard:* Philippe Mennecier.
    *Polish:* Juliusz Chroboczek. *Portuguese:* "Cláudio" Alexandre
    Duarte, Bianca and Denise Zanardi, Pedro Palhoto Matos, Wagner
    Amaral. *Québécois:* Laurent Detillieux. *Roman:* Pierpaolo
    Bernardi. *Romanian:* Juliusz Chroboczek, Ionel Mugurel.
    *Ruhrdeutsch:* "Timwi". *Russian:* Alexey Chernyak, Serge
    Nesterovitch. *Sami:* Anne Colin du Terrail, Luc Carissimo.
    *Sanskrit:* Siva Nataraja / Vincent Ramos. *Sächsisch:* André
    Müller. *Schwäbisch:* Otto Stolz. *Scots:* Jonathan Riddell.
    *Serbian:* Sindi Keesan, Ranko Narancic, Boris Daljevic, Szilvia
    Csorba. *Slovak:* G. Adam Stanislav, Radovan Garabík. *Slovenian:*
    Albert Kolar. *Spanish:* Aleida Muñoz
    <http://www.panix.com/~aleida>, Laura Probaos. *Swahili:* Ronald
    Schaffhirt. *Swedish:* Christian Rose, Bengt Larsson. *Taiwanese:*
    Henry H. Tan-Tenn. *Tagalog:* Jim Soliven. *Tamil:* Vasee
    Vaseeharan. *Tibetan:* D. Germano, Tom Gewecke. *Thai:* Alan Wood's
    wife. *Turkish:* Vaçe Kundakçı, Tom Gewecke, Merlign Olnon.
    *Ukrainian:* Michael Zajac. *Urdu:* Mustafa Ali. *Vietnamese*
    <http://nomfoundation.org/>: Dixon Au, [James] Đỗ Bá Phước 杜 伯 福.
    *Walloon:* Pablo Saratxaga. *Welsh:* Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru
    (Andrew). *Yiddish:* Mark David, *Zeneise:* Angelo Pavese.

*Tools Used to Create This Web Page:*
    The UTF8-aware Kermit 95 <k95.html> terminal emulator on Windows, to
    a Unix host with the EMACS <http://www.gnu.org/directory/emacs.html>
    text editor. Kermit 95 displays UTF-8 and also allows keyboard entry
    of arbitrary Unicode BMP characters as 4 hex digits, as shown HERE
    <glass.html>. Hex codes for Unicode values can be found in The
    Unicode Standard <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html>
    (recommended) and the online code charts
    <http://www.unicode.org/charts/>. When submissions arrive by email
    encoded in some other character set (Latin-1, Latin-2, KOI, various
    PC code pages, JEUC, etc), I use the TRANSLATE command of C-Kermit
    <ckermit.html> on the Unix host (where I read my mail <safe.html>)
    to convert the character set to UTF-8 (I could also use Kermit 95
    for this; it has the same TRANSLATE command). That's it -- no "Web
    authoring" tools, no locales, no "smart" anything. It's just plain
    text, nothing more. By the way, there's nothing special about EMACS
    -- any text editor will do, providing it allows entry of arbitrary
    8-bit bytes as text, including the 0x80-0x9F "C1" range. EMACS 21.1
    actually supports UTF-8; earlier versions don't know about it and
    display the octal codes; either way is OK for this purpose.

*Commentary:*
    Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:21:59 +0100
    From: "Bruno DEDOMINICIS" <hide@address.com>
    Subject: Je peux manger du verre, cela ne me fait pas mal.

    I just found out your website and it makes me feel like proposing an
    interpretation of the choice of this peculiar phrase.

    Glass is transparent and can hurt as everyone knows. The relation
    between people and civilisations is sometimes effusional and more
    often rude. The concept of breaking frontiers through globalization,
    in a way, is also an attempt to deny any difference. Isn't
    "transparency" the flag of modernity? Nothing should be hidden any
    more, authority is obsolete, and the new powers are supposed to
    reign through loving and smiling and no more through coercion...

    Eating glass without pain sounds like a very nice metaphor of this
    attempt. That is, frontiers should become glass transparent first,
    and be denied by incorporating them. On the reverse, it shows that
    through globalization, frontiers undergo a process of displacement,
    that is, when they are not any more speakable, they become repressed
    from the speech and are therefore incorporated and might become
    painful symptoms, as for example what happens when one tries to eat
    glass.

    The frontiers that used to separate bodies one from another tend to
    divide bodies from within and make them suffer.... The chosen phrase
    then appears as a denial of the symptom that might result from the
    destitution of traditional frontiers.

    Best,
    Bruno De Dominicis, Paris, France

*Other Unicode pages onsite:*

    * Peace in All Languages <http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/>
    * Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses <postal.html>
      (especially the Index <postal.html#index>)
    * Representing Middle English on the Web with UTF-8 <st-erkenwald.html>
    * The Kermit Bibliography <biblio.html> (in UTF-8)
    * Interchange of Non-English Computer Text <accents.html> (UTF-8
      math and box-drawing)
    * Unicode Table <utf8-t1.html> (in UTF-8) 

*Unicode samplers offsite:*

    * Michael Everson's Bibliography of Typography and Scripts
      <http://www.evertype.com/scriptbib.html>
    * Sample Unicode Test Pages and Script Links
      <http://home.att.net/~jameskass/scriptlinks.htm>
    * I don't know, I only work here <http://crism.maden.org/dunno.html>
    * Anyone can be provincial!
      <http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/provincial.html>
    * Transcriptions of "Unicode"
      <http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/Unicode_transcriptions.html>
    * Example Unicode Usage for Business Applications
      <http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-example.html>
    * UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
      <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps> 

*Unicode fonts:*

    * Unicode Fonts for Windows Computers
      <http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html> (Alan Wood)
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