Re: [lojban] Re: le cmalu bloti

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 01:38, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 09:52:46PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > Here's a translation of a French folk song:
>
> Which I don't know at all, so.  I will not attempt to preserve meter.
>
> > ni'o le bi'u cmalu bloti
> > ze'epu naku xe klama
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> A small boat
> Forever it was not a vehicle
> Ahoy!  Ahoy!

There was a small boat
Which had never been sailed.

> > .i ko'a ca'o ze'a litru
> > la tumlyselsruri xamsi
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> It was for a while travelling
> The inland? sea
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

They left for a long voyage
On the Mediterranean Sea.
({ko'a} refers to the crew. I had no room for {go'i}. Should {ze'a} be 
{ze'u}?)

> > .i jeftu be li mu bi'o xa
> > .i lei cidja cu se xaksu
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> For five or six weeks
> The food was gone
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

At the end of five to six weeks.
(The Lojban sounds like the whole trip took five to six weeks, and at some 
unspecified time they ran out of food. Again, I ran out of syllables.)

> > .i le ka se citka cu funca
> > le tordu sastu'u lacpu
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> Getting food is due to the luck of
> the short reed puller
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

They pulls the short straw
To know who would be eaten.
(The French has an ungrammatical liaison, which might be translated as an 
extra hyphen-letter, but I didn't.)

> > .i le ci'onrai cu se funca
> > .ija'ebo citka ko'e
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> The youngest have luck
> There for eat it
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

The youngest is lucky,
So he is eaten.
(The version I translated has "serait mangé". Another version has "fut 
désigné", which would be {cuxna} instead of {citka}.)

> > .i ko'a casnu le terjukpa
> > be le malselfunca nanla
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> It discussed the recipe
> for cooking the unlucky boy
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > .i darlu le nu rasyjukpa
> > .i djica le nu frikasa
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> Argued for frying
> Wanted to fricasee (sp?)
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > .i ca'o le nu casnu tai kei
> > ko'e parkla le zgabaktu
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> During the method discussion
> he climbed to the crow's nest
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

While they were thus discussing

> > .i ko'e cpedu fi le cevni
> > .i te preti fo le banli
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> He asked god
> asked the greatness
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > .iku'i ko'e ru'u zgana
> > lo ve'u vi'a bonxamsi
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> But he all around saw
> The wide, flat, foaming? sea
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

Waving (boxna).

> > .i le malselfunca cu kixsku
> > lu doi cesmamta je kurji
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> The unlucky one screamed
> "Holy Mother And Protector
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > mi zergau .inaja ko fraxu
> > .i ko citka fanta li'u
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> I am a criminal, but you must forgive!
> Prevent the eating!"
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

If I have sinned, then forgive.

> > .i ca lenu ko'e kixsku kei
> > da banli makfa le nanla
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> When he had screamed
> A miracle appeared to him
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > .i lo kilto cmalu finpe cu
> > plipe le bloti le xamsi
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> A thousand small fish
> Leaped from the sea to the boat
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > .i kavbu gi'e rasyjukpa
> > .i le nanla cu nurbi'o
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> Captured and fried them,
> The boy was safe
> Ahoy! Ahoy!
>
> > .i di'u zdile be do lisri
> > .inaja ke'urta'a do
> > .a'oi .a'oi
>
> That is what's funny in this story
> Only if repeatedly heard by you
> Ahoy! Ahoy!

If this story amuses you
I'll say it again.

phma
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa


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