From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 20 00:49:05 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 20 May 2007 00:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HpgA4-0005MR-RJ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 00:49:05 -0700 Received: from lakepoint.domeneshop.no ([194.63.248.54]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HpgA2-0005MF-3D for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 00:49:04 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (97.84-48-60.nextgentel.com [84.48.60.97]) (authenticated bits=0) by lakepoint.domeneshop.no (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4K7msBB020586 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 09:48:54 +0200 Subject: [lojban-beginners] balcurnu (take two) From: Einar Faanes To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 09:48:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1179647334.5478.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 X-Spam-Score-Int: 29 X-Spam-Bar: ++ X-archive-position: 4527 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: einar@bommelibom.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Sorry for being so sloppy. Saw today that the lojban translation was pasted twice. I found this in a forum, with request to translate it to different languages. Lojban was still missing, while esperanto, ido, interlingua and toki pona had their versions. I think it is from some russion scifi novel about primitive people living underground. The translations can be found here: http://vermisnoster.narod.ru/ I did some changes based on the comments from Pierre and some sloppiness I found myself after rereading it. lojban: ni'o le balcurnu goi ko'a zbasu le dertu .e le munje .e lei remna .i ko'a du roda .ije ko'a du le nunji'e .i loi bradi be ko'a cu du loi remna pe loi minji le nunmro ni'o le balcurnu goi ko'a cu xabju roda .i ko'a cu kakpa zbasu ro lo kevna be loi dertu poi selxa'u lei remna .i pu bo le remna pu cusku le du'u vo'a go'i .i mi cusku lu go'e li'u .i ko'a le nunji'e cu dunda gi'e lebna .i lei xamgu remna cu sinma ko'a .i loi bradi be ko'a cu djicu lo nu catra .i le jdapre cu cusku ga'u ti English: The Great Worm makes the earth. It makes the world, makes man. The Great Worm is everything. The Great Worm is life. The enemies of the Great Worm, the men of machines, are death. The Great Worm lives here. Close by. Around. The Great Worm digs all tunnels. Afterwards, man says that he did it. No; the Great Worm. It gives life, takes life away. Good people respect the Great Worm. Enemies of the Great Worm want to kill. The priests say this.