COPYRIGHT 1994 Wendy Ashby & Ron Clark (Prepared for the Web by Paul O. Bartlett, 1996) PISKI HEDO FISH PLEASURE Chuangtze e Huitze pa gresi Chuangtze and Huitze had strolled ad-epi ponti supra Hao; kron on to the bridge over the Hao, when u-la pa dice; the former observed, "See how the "Vide, komo plu piski sagita ci fishes dart about. That is the e la! U-la es piski hedo!" pleasue of fishes." "Tu auto ne es u piski," dice "You yourself are not a fish," Huitze, "komo tu ski de piski said Huitze, "how can you possibly hedo?" know about the pleasure of fishes?" "E tu ne es mi," reakti "And you not being I," retorted Chuangtze. Komo tu ski; mi ne Chuangtze, "How can you know that ski?" which I do not know?" "Mi ne es tu, e ne ski; qod tu "That I, not being you, do not ski," reakti Huitze, "es iso mi know what you know," replied Huitze, doxo; tu ne es u piski; e tu ne is identical with my argument that pote ski de piski hedo." you, not being a fish, cannot know what fish pleasure is like." "Lase na ki versi a qestio mo," "Let us go back to your original pa dice Chuangtze. "Tu questio question," said Chuangtze. You ask mi; komo mi ski de u reali piski me how I know in what consists the hedo. Tu qestio monstra ke tu pa pleasure of fishes. Your very ski u-ra; mi pa ski. Mi pa ski id question shows that you knew I knew. ex mi plu este epi i-ci ponti." I knew it from my own feelings on this bridge." from "GLOSA 1000 - ENGLISH" Glosa Education Organization P. O. Box 18 Richmond Surrey TW9 2AU England Regd. charity no. 298237
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