Re: [lojban-beginners] Translation of Number

Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Translation of Number

From: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:06:26 -0400

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The answer is "no". While translating the book of Esther, a work that has particular religious significance to me, I strove very hard to preserve nuance that was found in the original Hebrew (although I see now that in porting the version to the new lojban wiki, the deliberate spacing that I put in to preserve the original has been completely mangled. I am MIFFED!!! This is a completely unreadable mess now. Especially since I don't seem to have an account on this new site. Sorry, where was I?) . Despite this, there was only one or two places that I felt I needed to use "su'ore" and justified my decision in the talk about the translation. OTOH, I know see that someone has actually gone over that and CHANGED IT, and I am MIFFED AGAIN, because I can't see the history to find out who!!!! I can no longer take responsibility/ credit blame for the translation, and I will probably need to remove my name from it, because I have no idea who decided they could just touch it.

(BTW, did I ever mention that I hate the new site? Cause I do)

--gejyspa

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:26 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a question of plurality in practice. This question is primarily directed to those who are fluent in Lojban and have done some considerable translation work from other languages.

I am wondering if you found the lack of plural forms at all "tiresome" (for lack of better way of putting it). In other words, did you constantly find yourself having to add "pa", "ro" or other quantifier in order to convey the intended meaning of the original?

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