Re: [lojban] spuda be la'e lu sibdo be la lojban li'u

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 08:36 PM 02/15/2001 +0100, Bjoern Gohla wrote:
> having written that, i believe summarizing  world news is a good thing to
> start with. presumed the reader is up-to-date on global politics it should be
> easy for him to get into the text. an advantage of dealing with news are
> names, which are  recognisable even by the unintroduced.

Probably a good idea.  I've always been prone to shy away from discussing 
such events, because I know that the American perspective on many world 
events is biased and sometimes offensive to those from other countries.

> by the way, translating the classics would hardly do them justice, i doubt
> that anyone has reached the proficiency yet to render goethe or
> shakespeare appropriately in lojban, much less anyone to appreciate it.

Nick Nicholas and Mark Shoulson, who helped render _Hamlet_ into Klingon, 
are almost certainly skilled enough to do it into Lojban.  But that would 
be an extremely time-consuming task.

A long time ago, I started on Burton's uncensored version of the 
Scheherazade story from the Thousand Nights and a Night (The Arabian 
Nights).  It was going well and reasonably elegantly, but I had to drop it 
and haven't gotten back to it.  I should.  (Unfortunately the familiarity 
of the story wouldn't help much with reading the translation; the 
children's story has little relationship to the sexually explicit "real 
version".)

lojbab
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