From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 11 11:22:15 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17pC7v-0002jb-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:22:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:22:11 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Le Petit Prince: Can we legally translate it? Message-ID: <20020911182211.GR6798@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <166.13976f57.2aafd9dd@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <166.13976f57.2aafd9dd@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 1124 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:27:25PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Robin: > << > Suggest something out of copyright, with reasonably modern language, > originally written in English, that someone besides you here has > actually read. > >> > > I thought I did this back in the Alice days, but OK again: If you did, I don't recall. > Any novel by Henry James or Edith Wharton. > > If that is too much (but there are a few that are as short as Alice, even > after the draught), how about any non-dialect short story of Mark Twain > (1601, A Medieval Romance)? I didn't realize he did those, actually. > If that is too small, how about The Dubliners or any part thereof, or > > Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? > > Origin of Species? > > "On Denoting" by Berty? > > I can't remember where Virginia Wolf's stuff is at the moment. > > The first page -- and all the footnotes thereunto appertaining -- of The > Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. > > (East Lynne, Abie's Irish Rose -- probably not, since both use dialect -- > maybe Major Barbara or something a bit earlier or The Importance of Being > Earnest -- nice chance for lujvo there) > > Three Men in a Boat. > > That is about all I can read from here without getting up or changing my > glasses. Enough to keep even xorxes busy for a week or two. Unfortunately, I don't know the vast majority of those. If anyone wants to pick one and get started, I'll to the CVS stuff. > << > Umm, it was? What game? By whom? > >> > > Yes. The Legend of Zelda. (question ambiguous) trl by raizen, dismissal by > Kominek (with prejudice). All on 9-10 July 2002. Oh! You're absolutely right. The reason it did not occur to me to object is that that game is abandonware (i.e. the publisher no longer supports it and it is impossible to purchase first-hand; in fact, it is impossible to purchase the game system it was made for!). I have specific morals with regards to abandonware, which are irrelevant to our legal liability. Thanks for pointing that out. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/