1000PM GMT eleven March 2010
France"s President Nicolas Sarkozy Photo AFP The French president, angry about negotiations heading up to last December"s UN meridian summit, pronounced universe leaders had been handed a breeze content "similar to volapük."
Even local French speakers were stumped by this one, and a little at initial thought he pronounced "vol a Buc", or "flight to Buc," a small and problematic locale nearby Paris that has no airport.
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Fewer than dual dozen people in the universe these days are believed to verbalise volapük, but they are still confident that their denunciation can survive.
According to the Volapük website "Volapük lifon nog, ab no dabinon plu muf gretik yelas büätik. Too pük dalabon nog slopanis on a. Äbinon yufapük bev|netik primik ad dalabvn noganükami calöfik." It translates as "Volapük is vital still, but there is no longer the good transformation of former years. Nevertheless the denunciation still has the supporters."
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