lemumoi derdesku nuzda

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

mi .e le mi speni noi se cmene la nalan. puzi jajgau loi slabu taxfu (I
and my wife, whose name is Nalan,  have just collected a mass of old
clothes)  .i lego'i djice lenu lego'e se dunda le derdesku selxrani (We
want them to be given to the victims of the earthquake)  .i ta'o la
nalan. kei seljajgau taxfu cu zmadu ri'a lenu vo'a mutce nelci lenu
taxfu ke terve'u ja zbagau (Incidentally, Nalan has collected more
clothes than me, because she really likes buying clothes or having them
made up)  .i ta'onai ti'e le mi spepa'u cu cuska lenu loi cnino po'o
taxfu se dunda .ei le derdesku selxrani ki'u ri mlinobli (Anyway,
apparently my father-in-law said that only new clothes should be given
to the earthquake victims because they are upper-middle-class people
(bad translation - the turkish is "kaliteli insanlar" - "quality
people", which translates equaly badly))
.i .oiro'a (social complaint!)  .i mi cusku lu mi'o dunda le slabu taxfu

le stuna prenu  .i .oi paunai mi'o bilga dunda le cnino taxfu le stici
prenu mu'i ma li'u (I say "We give old clothes to the people in the East

[of Turkey].  Why the hell should we give new clothes to the people in
the West?")  .i ta'o mi nelci le slabu taxfu (By the way, I like old
clothes)  .i mi ca dasni lo palkrdjinu poi la nalan. pu dasni de'i lenu
ri balcu'e tadni (I am currently wearing some jeans Nalan wore when she
was a university student)  .i zo'ovu'enai la'edi'u selcnicinse (Heh heh
- it feels sexy)

ni'o bazi cnino cteki loi karce .e loi beifonxa .e loi jecjibgu'u
seljerna mu'i lenu derdesku xrani (Soon there'll be a new tax on cars,
mobile phones and State employees' wages because of the earthquake
damage)  .i mi ponse lo karce (I own a car)  .i la nalan. ponse lo
beifonxa (Nalan owns a mobile phone)  .i la nalan. jecta ckule ctuca
(Nalan reaches in a State school)  .i .ue.oi (What a bummer!)  .i
zo'oru'e baza na cnino taxfu (Ha - no new clothes for a while!)