Talk:George Psalmanazar

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I think this could, with some good work, become a great featured article for April Fool's Day. For one thing, it would be great to have some of his wonderful illustrations of his "native land". See discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. I look forward to a possible collaboration in this regard.--Pharos 02:57, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I have some material on him and am interested in collaborating. Warofdreams 13:57, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * George Psalmanazar's book has been translated into Chinese and was published in Taiwan about a decade ago. The book's title is "Fu Er Mo Sha?" (福爾摩啥？) The last character ("啥") is a Chinese pun that means "What?" in northern China. -- Toytoy 08:01, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)


 * Since this book is in public domain, you can get a copy of it and digitize its imaginative illustrations. -- Toytoy 08:02, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Could someone create a redirect page from "George Psalmanaazaar"? (I'm having trouble trying to set this up myself.) In the original copies of his "Formosa" book he spelt his name with the double AAs. His last name is variously listed as Psalmanaazaar or Psalmanazar in many references.

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July 10 additions
Hi there, I've been meaning to add my knowledge to this page for about three years or so but only got around to it today. I wrote a 30+ paper on Psalmanazar in college several years ago so I've always felt it would be useful to adapt bits of its and include them here. I can stand by all the additions I've made as being factually accurate, and if necessary I can add some more references to demonstrate that. If anyone would like to clean up or reorganize what I've written though, they're more than welcome to.

Also, I was thinking that it might be worthwhile to start a "Formosan langage" page. I kept the quote from the Formosan Lord's Prayer that was there before just because it was interesting, but it doesn't really fit into the flow of the article. Maybe if someone wanted to they could incorporate it into a Formosan language stub?

I too think this could be a great featured article; stumbling upon this very Wikipedia page about three years ago is what made me aware of Psalmanazar in the first place. With a little more work it could be easily the most comprehensive biography of him on the web. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjaminbreen (talk • contribs) 23:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

The "Formosan Lord's Prayer"
It's just garbled Greek. Hardly a "constructed language" at all. Take out the imaginary word endings, and see that the order of some words and sentences is reversed, and it's obvious:

"amy pornio"= "hemon pater", "ornio"= "ouranois", "gnay(jorhe) sai lory" = "gene(theto) sou (the)lema", "eyfodere sai bagalin" = "elthato sou basileia"

Surely there were people around in 18th century England who could see this? Walshie79 (talk) 19:28, 29 August 2015 (UTC)