From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Mon Jan 01 11:07:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 1 Jan 2001 19:07:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 74510 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2001 19:07:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Jan 2001 19:07:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ef.egroups.com) (10.1.2.111) by mta2 with SMTP; 1 Jan 2001 19:07:05 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.119] by ef.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Jan 2001 19:06:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:06:54 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Li Pin & jbopemci Message-ID: <92qkge+baqo@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1370 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._Tueting_(T=FCting)?=" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 5092 I'd like to share the following gem of poetry with you. It's from a not too= =3D=0D well-known T'ang poet, and masterly translated by G. Debon (an=20 emeritus German sinologist). My own (awkward!) Lojban version is added, and= =3D=0D I wonder if it is able to give a faint idea of the original's=20 contents. (Your comments are highly appreciated!) BTW, my wife was asking me, why the Lojban version had to be that verbose (= =3D=0D I agree - it should at least be the size of the German=20 translation.) =A7=F5=C0W=A1m=B4=E7=BA~=A6=BF=A1n(prom. A.D. 854) =C0=AD=A5~=AD=B5=AE=D1=B5=B4 =B8g=A5V=B4_=A5=DF=ACK =AA=F1=B6m=B1=A1=A7=F3=A9=C4 =A4=A3=B4=B1=B0=DD=A8=D3=A4H liing way in shu jyue jing dong fuh lih chuen jinn shiang chyng genq chieh bu gaan wenn lai ren Heimweg Ueber die Berge verschlagen, haben Briefe mich nimmer erreicht. Winter und Fruehling hab ich ertragen. Nun, da die Heimat in Sicht, wird es mir bang; Ich wage nicht, die mir begegnen, zu fragen. tr. Prof. G. Debon klama le dibzda lei galma'a se bancu .ijenai ze'u klamu'o mi fa lo notci .i pu ra'unre'i le dunra capu'o le vensa seltei .i ca ve'a viska le dibzda .i lei ba seldu'o cu zmadu tepri'a .itemu'ibo mi na darsi lenu ca reisku fi lei se penmi be fi lemi dargu tr. A.W.T. :((( co'o mi'e la .aulun. P.S. .i na djuno le du'u la jbosnu cu makau .ije ma te tolcri=20