From lojban-out@lojban.org Mon Nov 08 16:59:25 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 50743 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2004 00:59:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m19.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Nov 2004 00:59:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 2004 00:59:24 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CRKLb-0003wG-43 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:58:59 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CRKKg-0003uF-DM; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:58:02 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CRKKT-0003u0-9M for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:57:49 -0800 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:57:49 -0800 Message-ID: <20041109005749.GR20718@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i X-archive-position: 8964 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 X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: It's Raining Men X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23368 Huh. Apparently it's a cover: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/itsrainingmenlyrics.html On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:05:34PM -0000, sshiskom wrote: > > > It's Raining Men, sung by Geri Halliwell. Of course it doesn't scan... It can probably be made to scan, if you're flexible enough. :-) Dropping ".i" helps a lot. > .i le ka cilmo cu zenba mutce cilmo zenba > .i le ka danre cu linto Don't barometers go down as pressure *increases*? Dropping the ".i" makes in scan. I'll stop fixing the scancion now; it's not nice. :-) > .i du'o ro krasi ku se xamgu Don't need the ku. > le nu klama le zdabartu zdabartu ?? I have "The street's the place to go" > .iki'ubo ti'u le cabycte > ti'u li pano pi mu > la'e di'e pamoi fasnu > .i le nanmu cu carvi That all work. It sounds a lot funnier in Lojban, though. > .i naurcarvi .i ja'a go'i > .i naurcarvi .uisai > .i mi klama le zdabartu Oh, zdabartu is "outside". > .i mi curmi le nu mi cimbi'o Two lines in the original, no? > .i naurcarvi .i ja'a go'i > .i naurcarvi fa ro vrici I suggest "mupli" > .i xadycla joi pelkre joi manku joi kusru I have "lean" at the end of that line, and "mean" at the end of the next. > joi rufsu joi renvi joi tsali joi xadycinla Now why isn't "kind" or "sensitive" or even "rich" on that list? Yeesh. > etc. Not complete... Close enough. Good job. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/