That fact is very relevant to Lojban and how we translate the title. I
was thinking about this in relation to the title of Vernor Vinge's
latest science fiction novel "Rainbows End". Vernor Vinge said when he
was a guest of honor at this year's ConFusion science fiction
convention that he very deliberately wanted it to be plural, not
possessive.
-epkat
On 8/5/06, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> The script is on the wiki now. And I'm not sure why I called it
> Machinima when it pretty clearly isn't. Although, the working title
> was Machina which sounds similar.
>
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=elephants+dream
>
> I should point out that there isn't an apostrophe missing in the
> title. That's how they spell it on their site, and they discuss it as
> being like elephants dreaming in the Making Of videos.
>
> mu'omi'e .aleks.
>
> On Aug 5, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Matt Arnold wrote:
>
> > This is an excellent choice. I volunteer to provide the voice of
> > Proog. :) The English version of the dialogue only has 315 words. This
> > project shouldn't take long to complete at all!
> > -epkat
> >
> > P.S. Incidentally, for future reference, Elephants Dream has nothing
> > to do with Machinima.
> >
> > On 8/4/06, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> >> I recently downloaded the movie "elephants dream", which is open
> >> content under the Creative Commons Attribution lisence. It is about
> >> 10 minutes, with rather minimal dialogue between the two characters.
> >> The original script in English is available and is about 4 pages
> >> long. Translations to about 20 other languages are available also. I
> >> think that this might make a good candidate for dubbing or subtitling
> >> in Lojban. Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> http://www.elephantsdream.org/
> >>
> >> script on bottom of page: http://orange.blender.org/download
> >>
> >> mu'omi'e .aleks.
> >>
> >
>
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