{"id":6487,"date":"2015-11-07T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_text&#038;p=6487"},"modified":"2021-02-07T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:10:32","slug":"the-pirate-who-does-not-know-the-value-of-pi-excerpt-4","status":"publish","type":"stsp_text","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/de\/text\/the-pirate-who-does-not-know-the-value-of-pi-excerpt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi \u2013 Excerpt 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>scroll down for the italian version<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think this island has any indigenous people on it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it does, we won\u2019t understand them or they us. Indigenous people never have any common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy \u2018never\u2019? Have you met all of them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have to meet all of them. That\u2019s what logic is for. If they had common sense, they would emigrate. If they emigrated, they would no longer be indigenous people. Q.E.D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, parrot, why should they emigrate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, pirate, why <i>shouldn\u2019t <\/i>they emigrate? Should they sit here all of their lives? Don\u2019t they deserve a second chance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you take it upon yourself to speak for indigenous people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I don\u2019t speak for them, who will? Somebody has to speak for them if they don\u2019t have any common sense! Most of what they know is numb terror under some hedge of chokecherry or viburnum, which they cannot express!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoor indigenous people! Poor poor indigenous people! O poor unfortunate indigent endogamous ingenuous\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoor genuine people my pope\u2019s nose! What if they show up and ask to see our visas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we don\u2019t have any\u2026 We don\u2019t even possess passports!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what troubles me, pirate. Suppose we get deported?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must persuade the indignant people that in our culture it is not proper to ask pirates and parrots for passports!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you persuade anyone of anything if they don\u2019t have any common sense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut are you sure they don\u2019t have any common sense? I mean, you proved it but are you sure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me read you something. \u2018Unlike their peers, the Tonga Islanders do possess native numerals up to 100,000. Not content even with this, the French poet Leconte de Lisle pressed them further and obtained numerals up to 10<sup>12<\/sup>; however, his data was proven upon publication to be partly nonsense-words and partly indelicate expressions, so that the supposed series of high numerals forms at once a modest lexicon of Tongan indecency, and a warning as to the probable results of taking down unverified answers from savages.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see why you\u2019re nervous. Ingenious people are really hard to talk to!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ITALIANO:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIl Pirata Che Non Conosce il Valore di PI\u201d \u2013 Brano scelto 4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCredi che su quest\u2019isola ci siano indigeni?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSe pure ci fossero, non li comprenderemmo e loro non comprenderebbero noi. Gli indigeni sono sprovvisti di buonsenso\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerch\u00e9 \u2018sprovvisti di buonsenso\u2019? Li hai forse conosciuti tutti?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNon ho bisogno di conoscerli tutti. E\u2019 un fatto logico. Se avessero un po\u2019 di buonsenso, emigrerebbero altrove. Ma se emigrassero altrove allora non sarebbero pi\u00f9 indigeni. Come volevasi dimostrare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa, pappagallo, perch\u00e9 mai dovrebbero emigrare?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE perch\u00e9 mai <i>non dovrebbero<\/i>, pirata? Dovrebbero starsene qui con le mani in mano per tutta la vita? Non meritano forse di avere una seconda chance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChi ti ha autorizzato a farti portavoce degli indigeni?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSe non fossi io a parlare per loro, chi lo farebbe? Qualcuno dovr\u00e0 pur parlare per loro, visto che sono sprovvisti di buonsenso! Dietro le loro siepi di sambuco e di viburno, tutto ci\u00f2 che conoscono \u00e8 un inebetito terrore che neppure osano esprimere!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoveri indigeni! Poveri popoli indigeni! Oh poveri, sfortunati indigenti endogami ingenui\u2026\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoveri innocenti della mia coda pennuta! E che facciamo se arrivano e ci chiedono il visto?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMa noi non abbiamo nessun visto\u2026Non abbiamo neppure i passaporti!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE\u2019 proprio questo che mi preoccupa, pirata. Che cosa facciamo se ci danno il foglio di via?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDobbiamo convincere tutti questi indignati che nella nostra cultura non \u00e8 educato chiedere il passaporto a pirati e pappagalli!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa come fai a convincere qualcuno di qualcosa se \u00e8 sprovvista di ogni buonsenso?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa tu sei proprio certo che siano sprovvisti di buonsenso? A dire il vero, me lo hai dimostrato, ma ne sei proprio sicuro?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLascia che ti legga una cosa. \u2018Diversamente dai loro simili, gli indigeni delle isole Tonga sanno contare fino a 100,000. Non contento di questo, il poeta francese Leconte de Lisle li mise sotto pressione fino a ottenere da loro multipli di 10 fino alla dodicesima potenza. Tuttavia, i suoi rilievi, una volta pubblicati, si rivelarono non solo insensati ma carichi di turpiloquio, per cui la presunta serie di multipli di numerali divenne null\u2019altro che un becero lessico fatto di parolacce in lingua tongana, che funge da monito sui possibili risultati che possano discendere dalla registrazione di dichiarazioni non autorizzate da parte dei selvaggi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOra capisco perch\u00e9 sei cos\u00ec nervoso. E\u2019 davvero difficile parlare con gli ingegni!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by Daniela Daniele.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scroll down for the italian version &nbsp; \u201cDo you think this island has any indigenous people on it?\u201d \u201cIf it does, we won\u2019t understand them or they us. Indigenous people never have any common sense.\u201d \u201cWhy \u2018never\u2019? Have you met all of them?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t have to meet all of them. 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