Re: CONLANG: Write-only language, part 2

[Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>]

>"You who think to seek for me, know that your seeking and yearning will
>avail you not, unless you know the mystery: for if that which you seek,
>you find not within yourself, you will never find it without." (From The
>Charge of the Goddess, more or less as written by Doreen Valiente)

The most difficult thing about this is understanding what the English actually
means.  I have taken it as:

     "You (who think to seek for me,)
          (know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not,
           unless you know the mystery):"

Sets the topic of the statement.  Firstly restricting the set of listeners,
then clarifying some information about them.

"for if (that which you seek, (you find not within yourself,))
 you will never find it without."

The actual assertion is that the thing sought is not found without and the
conditions are that it is not found within.

In Lojban:

do poi troci lenu sisku tu'ami kei zi'enoi djuno ledu'u lenu sisku jo'u camdji
kei na sidju ki'u lenu na'e djuno filo nalterju'o zo'u va'o lenu lo jai se sisku
be do na zo'i facki kei do na ze'o facki


 do           poi         troci    lenu      sisku         tu'a          mi kei
You who-restrictive-clause try the-event-of seeking something-to-do-with me

      zi'e                  noi          djuno ledu'u       lenu   sisku
clause-connective, who-descriptive-clause know  that the-event-of seeking

     jo'u           camdji    kei       na        sidju       ki'u
in-common-with intense-desire    it-is-false-that help  because-reason

    lenu        na'e     djuno     filo       nalterju'o    zo'u
the-event-of other-than knowing about-the other-than-known topic:

          va'o              lenu     lo     jai      se sisku  be  do
under-the-conditions-of the-event-of the abtraction | sought | by you

       na         zo'i  facki kei do        na         ze'o  facki
it-is-false-that inward find     you it-is-false-that outward find.


The Lojban doesn't need all of the 'you's, 'it's and 'that's that pepper the
English and the scope of the predication is defined.

ni'o co'omi'e dn.