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[lojban] Re: translated "Jingle Bells" lyrics



--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@l...> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:36:26PM -0000, Robert Heiss wrote:
> > Permit me another try:
> > 
> >  .i zu'o sicni  tonga janbe  ca le litrytei
> 
> If that's supposed to fit the chorus's scansion, it fails by three
> syllables.  But given the presence of 'sicni', I suspect it's not.

I felt free to insert three unaccented syllables; "jingle" was
translated "sicni tonga"; reduplication was translated "zu'o".

> What line in the original song is that supposed to match?

  .[i] zu'o sic[ni] tonga jan[be] ca le litrytei
  Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way! 



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