Re: [lojban-beginners] Biting off way more than I can chew -- and loving it!

["Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

Gearhead Shem Tov wrote:
> But what story to translate?  I wouldn't want to use any of my own
> published stories (my ego is large, but not that large).  It would
> need to be another author's story, a story that I admire that is
> either in the public domain or the translation rights to which I could
> easily obtain.  

David Brin has given us a certain amount of translation rights; I can't 
recall off the top of my head whether it was only for certain stories or 
for anything we could manage to actually translate.  But there were some 
short-stories in the queue to be done, that never were.  Look in the 
Lojban List archives for his name, and you may find out more.

But if you are of a SF writer disposition, why not try writing a story 
directly in Lojban, even if very short.  Translation is subject to the 
"how best to express the English" problem, and tends to force people, 
especially those new to the language, into a heavily English-patterned 
style of expression.

Composing Lojban fresh, one would hopefully tend to think "relationship, 
relatees (sumti), predication" style, rather than that of English 
narrative or other styles.  A more conversational or stream of 
consciousness style adding in lots of attitudinal and discursive forms 
(selma'o UI) (with the nature and style of expression of these forms 
being key to showing a character or POV person's personality).

And no one would fault the ego of a real author writing his own story in 
Lojban %^)

(But if you want to translate, and indeed have your own published 
stories to translate, go for it!  The fact that they are published means 
that it is no leap of ego to expect that someone might be interested in 
reading them in Lojban.  And at least you can be really certain what you 
want a given sentence to convey in the translation.  Others can only 
guess, as is true when you translate the work of others).

--
Bob LeChevalier    lojbab@lojban.org    www.lojban.org
President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, Inc.

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