[lojban-beginners] Re: trying poe poetry translation

On 8/4/08, peter hering <pjhering@gmail.com> wrote:

I appreciate it and jbofi'e digests it without complaint, but what would Poe think?

Here's a looser attempt of my own:

pu zu so'i lo nanca be li so'i
lo gugde noi jibni lo xamsi
cu se xabju lo slabu la'a nixli
noi zo .anabeLIS. cmene ke'a mi
.i ny jmive co pensi lo po'o za'i
ny prami gi'e se prami vau ro'u mi

Esperanto has over the years produced its own literature.

Indeed, they do have a head start. Since they started with all of the vocabulary of Europe, a double head start. But it'll be the tortoise and the hare...

Does lojban have its great authors and poets?

and speaking of the tortoise and the hare, :)
one of the great poets of Lojban's history is Nitcion,
who's greek & one of whose efforts is some translations of Aesop:
http://www.lojban.org/files/texts/aesop

There's a bunch of texts up at
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Texts+In+Lojban

There's a lot of stuff there to dig through! Hmm I wonder what all that would look like bound up into a nice hardcover..

One author who's working now is la gejyspa, who just completed a wonderful translation of Esther (which is too hard for me, so I wouldn't recommend it to you!), and who just pointed out to me an older translation of his, "Terry the Tiger Visits the Big City", which would be a good read for ninpre:
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=la+teris.+po%27u+lo+tirxu+cu+vitke+zi%27o+le+barda+tcadu&bl

One of my favorite texts in Lojban is la grutrduriani (Durian fruit). For some reason it's not even on that Texts in Lojban page! I guess maybe I'll add it. It's a simple diary; lots of entries about watching people play football in the park. I've always found it very simple & relaxing to read:
http://vixcafe.googlepages.com/grutrduriani.html

Thank you kindly for your effort.

je'e

My response the the puzzle text you posed:
.io .i'o .ui .i'e do cilre zo'e gi'e sarji vau la .lojban.
"With respect, appreciation, delight and approval you learn and support lojban."

yes, that's what i meant :)

To the best of my beginner's understanding the denizens of selma'o UI may be added to text more or less freely and are not bound by the otherwise strict grammar. As for interpretation this seems a little ambiguous (and therefore probably not the case). I've lumped them all into one nebulous glob of attitudinal meaning.