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[173.13.139.236]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n6si3736271pbg.2.2011.12.07.18.42.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.236 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.236; Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RYTw9-0000MZ-TR for lojban@googlegroups.com; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:42:18 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:42:17 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] A baby song for you. Message-ID: <20111208024217.GA14461@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@googlegroups.com References: <20111203183652.GP5332@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> <20111206213053.GF14461@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> <20111207001913.GK14461@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.236 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / 0___o -Robin On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 03:22:59PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote: > Yeah, I've always been partial to the Afrikaans lullaby, Siembamba, > myself... While not the same tune, it's lyrics translate as: > la simbambas no'u lo cifnu po'e la mamta zo'u > ko jai selto'i lo cnebo be sy. > gi'e darxi sy. fo lo stedu > .i renro sy lo nenri be lo fenra se ri'a > lo nu sy. mrobi'o. >=20 > I think parents just need to let off steam in a harmless way (singing > about throttling a kid in gentle tones), rather than, God Forbid, > beating/shaking them, or even screaming at them, when they've been stayin= g > up with a screaming baby for 8 weeks straight... >=20 > --gejyspa >=20 > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Robin Lee Powell < > rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: >=20 > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:10:26PM -0300, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Michael Turniansky > > > wrote: > > > > It's "ROCK a bye BA-by/IN the tree TOP/ WHEN the wind BLOWS/the > > CRA-dle > > > > will ROCK..." > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnujeK5Nc1nw&feature=3Drelated > > > > > > The Spanish version is even creepier than the English: > > > http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=3Des&p=3D2438&c=3D71 > > > Which roughly means: > > > > > > .e'o doi cifnu > > > ko sipna uo > > > gi'a lo crida > > > ba bevri do > > > > > > .e'o doi cifnu > > > ko sipna uo > > > .i ja lo xlacrida > > > ba citka do > > > > 0_o > > > > -Robin > > > > -- > > http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. > > Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot > > is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" > > is "na nei". 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