Re: [lojban] Re: How it should have been. And how it could be.

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
> How were the mock rhyme songs of A's A in W translated ?
>
> Did you first translate the original rhyme song, then adapt to the
> parody ?   Or, were the parody translated directly with no translation
> of the reference ?
>
> This is an important question.
>
> Well, at least, if there is a translation of A's A in W, there is
> *some* pragmatic of lojbanic expressions, --- even if it is pragmatics
> of a non-existent world, (alas).

  Well, you'd have to ask xorxes about that, but the list (and links)
of translated texts can be found here:
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Texts+in+Lojban

  Certainly, some things were adapted, as they always were when
translating Alice into different languages.  The classic example in
the lojban was of the pun "We called him Tortoise, because he taught
us" is "mi'a te cmene ra lu ractu cafmi'a li'u ki'u lo nu ra ctuca
mi'a " ("We  called him Lapine Frequent-laugher because he taught us")
("ractu cafmi'a/ra ctuca mi'a")

                     --gejyspa

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