12/11/05: Name That Language

[davidlevine]

So I was doing a Google search on my own name, as one does, and Google turned up this page on a mysterious site known only by a number.

The page is about "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" and it has two reader comments. One reader gives the story a grade of 5, the other a 4.

I can't even figure out what language the page is in, never mind what it says.

The Xerox language guesser thinks it's Estonian. But there doesn't seem to be any automated Estonian to English translator on the web. I've tried Romanian, Slovenian, and Serbian translators and none of them can extract any meaning from it.

Can anyone reading this tell me what it says?

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

"German" is one of those words that has LOTS of differences! Saksa, allemand(e), Deutsch... and not a single one I know sounds like the English version of the word. Stuff like this fascinates me. How'd they get so many words?

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

I can sort of see how "Deutsch" evolved into "tedesco"; but it's still fascinating, I agree. The English comes from the Latin name for the region, "Germania"; "Saksa" does sound like it was "Saxon" originally. But "allemande"?

allemande

[calimac.livejournal.com]

From a German tribe that the Romans called Alemanni. They were the tribe that the French (to be) had the most contact with, so their name is the one that stuck.