[lojban] Re: It's Raining Men

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Huh.  Apparently it's a cover:
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/itsrainingmenlyrics.html

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:05:34PM -0000, sshiskom wrote:
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> It's Raining Men, sung by Geri Halliwell. Of course it doesn't scan...

It can probably be made to scan, if you're flexible enough.  :-)

Dropping ".i" helps a lot.

> .i le ka cilmo cu zenba

mutce cilmo zenba

> .i le ka danre cu linto

Don't barometers go down as pressure *increases*?

Dropping the ".i" makes in scan.

I'll stop fixing the scancion now; it's not nice.  :-)

> .i du'o ro krasi ku se xamgu

Don't need the ku.

> le nu klama le zdabartu

zdabartu ??

I have "The street's the place to go"

> .iki'ubo ti'u le cabycte
> ti'u li pano pi mu
> la'e di'e pamoi fasnu
> .i le nanmu cu carvi

That all work.  It sounds a lot funnier in Lojban, though.

> .i naurcarvi .i ja'a go'i
> .i naurcarvi .uisai
> .i mi klama le zdabartu

Oh, zdabartu is "outside".

> .i mi curmi le nu mi cimbi'o

Two lines in the original, no?

> .i naurcarvi .i ja'a go'i
> .i naurcarvi fa ro vrici

I suggest "mupli"

> .i xadycla joi pelkre joi manku joi kusru

I have "lean" at the end of that line, and "mean" at the end of the
next.

> joi rufsu joi renvi joi tsali joi xadycinla

Now why isn't "kind" or "sensitive" or even "rich" on that list?

Yeesh.

> etc. Not complete...

Close enough.  Good job.

-Robin

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