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I don't have any texts online, but I can put in some of a translation of the public domain short story "The Velveteen Rabbit" Li counelh ai velhout Elh eri una vez un counelh ai velhout i a la cominhata elh eri mags ilendid. Elh eri gros i lhun: comou un counelh se de eser. Sinha pilha ava las ipinas brunas i blancas, elh ava las bivotes dil vil ver i sinhas oureclas se avan souit coum li situn ros. Ai tutin dil Natal, quand elh se sidia firmamint ai coumhi dia cilceta dil Raz, coum un ram dil agevolh tir sinhas patas, elh se behava cirvenant. Elh eri unas aliras causas na cilceta: unas nucis i unas narngis i un locomotiv di joucir, unas agidlas ai csocolat i un sagou mechanec, mags li Counelh eri li milhour di tout li raz rizivi. Disde men que dous ouras li raz li amava, i pos lis cias i cis arivavan di mhacar li vist dil Natal. Pos eri la oundateoun dil papir tisu durant li avrir dis vardilis i pircos la etouteoun li Counelh ai velhout eri ouvlhu. Depos un long timp, elh avetava na arasa dis jouetis o souvir la planca da caria dis auris i noulh pena mags di lhe. Elh eri temed pir li cracher i ala cos que elh e vasit dil velhout, unis jouetis mags caris li desdenhavan. Lis jouetis mechanechis se comportavan souvir lis aliris. Elhis avan las edis modirnas i se finjian eser real. La oncsi maqueta, qui vivu disde dous itateounis i pirdi mags di sinha pintura se comportava comou lhour. Elh eri cert di pralar di sinha trisna pir tirmis tecnichis. Li Counelh ne asumia di eser una maqueta di quelhcosa, pircos elh ne savia que lis counelhis realis ixistian: elh cria que elhis erin varcit coum la serura comou lhe, elh entindia que noulhi un ne dou pralar dia serura na socita modirna. Di mags, Timote, li lhon coum las patas artecoulus, qui e vasit pir lis soldatis handicapus i pircos lhe elh dia se comportar milhour mags elh finjian que elh e rilateounot coum li gouvirnamint. Pircos lis aliris, li Counelh patetec se sincia mags ourdenar sen la emorteca i la pirouna soula qui vasia amavel a lhe eri li Cavalh ala pilha. The Velveteen Rabbit THERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming. There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten. For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real. The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles. Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse. Pronunciation can be found at: http://www3.telus.net/scottoh/pilovese/alphabet_pronunciation.htm HTH, Scotto From: romconlang@yahoogroups.com [mailto:romconlang@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of thomasruhm Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:26 AM To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com Subject: [romconlang] Could you please give me some pages of texts in your Romlangs? I always need long texts to see, what a language is like and to understand it. Reading is the way I learn most languages. I don't use much grammar books. :) Thank you all! Thomas [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]