To keep the message short, I'm refraining from making a number of comments
that come to mind. The text is the Draft Treaty establishing a
Constitution for Europe, which is provided (as PDF documents) in all
languages of interest. Considering its importance, each document is likely
to be carefully written, and one would assume, an example of the best form
of each respective language. The collection, in a geographically-limited
sense, is a contemporary "Rosetta Stone". (Worldwide, I assume the U.N.'s
Declaration on Human Rights is another such collection.)
The server doesn't restrict the number of simultaneous connections; I
think I had eight at most. File sizes are modest, ranging from about 670kB
(ET) to 1.44 MB (EL) (full floppy... :) ). Total is 18 MiB. Interesting to
see which languages were at the extremes; I would not have expected either
of those.
Languages are BG CS DA DE EL EN ES ET
FI FR GA IT LT LV MT NL PT RO SK SL SV
(codes taken from the filenames).
Almost forgot the URL!
<
http://european-convention.eu.int/DraftTreaty.asp?lang=EN>
Modify the language code on the end as you wish. You do need to specify
one of the available languages. (Filenames for the various languages don't
all have the same format, btw.)
Regards,
--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
If you're determined to be afraid, choose wisely
what to be afraid of.