I shall be extremely grateful to the one who can help me out with this one.
Near the beggining of chapter XV of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Professor Aronnax tells of a phrase the Nautilus' second officer pronounced almost every day, while scanning the horizon every morning, during their stay on board the ship.
Nautron respoc lorni virch
Not even the professor is able to decypher the meaning of this, assuming that it meant simply "Nothing on sight"; this owing to the fact that, the only time in which the phrase was replaced by some other equally incomprehensible sentence, Captain Nemo apparently detected something in the horizon which the professor never learnt of.
It does sound like "Nothing on sight", especially with the first and last words, both wich have a likeness to words commonly used in romanic languages such as the Italian niente, 'nothing'or the Spanish vista, 'sight'.
SPOILER!
Since captain Nemo is actually Indian, (and a very educated man overall), and considering its resemblance to the latin languages mentioned above, could this phrase be sanskrit?
Thanks in advance!
Near the beggining of chapter XV of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Professor Aronnax tells of a phrase the Nautilus' second officer pronounced almost every day, while scanning the horizon every morning, during their stay on board the ship.
Nautron respoc lorni virch
Not even the professor is able to decypher the meaning of this, assuming that it meant simply "Nothing on sight"; this owing to the fact that, the only time in which the phrase was replaced by some other equally incomprehensible sentence, Captain Nemo apparently detected something in the horizon which the professor never learnt of.
It does sound like "Nothing on sight", especially with the first and last words, both wich have a likeness to words commonly used in romanic languages such as the Italian niente, 'nothing'or the Spanish vista, 'sight'.
SPOILER!
Since captain Nemo is actually Indian, (and a very educated man overall), and considering its resemblance to the latin languages mentioned above, could this phrase be sanskrit?
Thanks in advance!