[lojban] caplisri le kutzdani la ser.artyr.conan.dail.

[Eric Sumner <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

I have started translating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Empty
House".  I have translated the first three sentences off of the version at
Project Gutenberg.  I find it interesting that my translations are
approximately the same length as the original, which has not been the case with
any of the other translations I have attempted.  From this, I can conclude one
of three things: I am getting better at this, or I am missing some huge piece,
or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses lots of big words.  I'd like to believe the
first possibility, but the last one is most probable.

Here, I have put the original text in quotes, the translated text in braces,
and any comments or questions I had about the translation as  was making it
afterwards.  I would appreciate any comments that you have.

  -- .eryk.

"It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the
fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under
most unusual and inexplicable circumstances."

{seti'u lenu vensa li pabisovo kei selcinri fa ro le prenu poi nenri la london.
gi'e mlibadri fa le jikca prenu selcmima vau lenu tcini lenu catra la
.anyrabyl.ranyld.ader. kei kei noi cizra .e na'e selciski}

* Should a person's title be considered part of their name?
* Honourable should probably be translated for meaning rather than sound, but I
was lazy.
* {na'e selciski} = unexplained != inexplicable
* I have no idea how to translate dismay, so I translated it as
{mlibadri}=mildly sad.
* There's a lot of nested stuff in there, and I'm not sure I got all of the
terminators that I need in there.

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"The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out
in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion,
since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not
necessary to bring forward all the facts."

{.i so'a le prenu sanji da poi datni le zekri lenu le pulji sisku le velji'i
kei .iku'i piso'e le datni selmipri seti'u lenu go'i kei .i lenu go'i kei
selmukti ka ka le velji'i tsali kei na'e mukti lenu jarco piro le velji'i kei
kei}

* I don't know if {lenu go'i kei} is valid.
* The logic may not be expressed properly
* I don't know if I need to use {piro le velji'i} or {le piro velji'i}

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"Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those missing
links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain."

{.i da poi temci lenu go'i kei le cabna cu nanca li ji'ipano .i ca curmi lenu
mi dunda de poi na'e zvati pagbu le linsi noi selmanci kei}

* Is there a better way to deal with these times?

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