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Re: [lojban] Pokemon translation


On Saturday, July 14, 2012 12:11:08 AM UTC-5, tsani wrote:
I'd like to help out ! :)
Awesome -- feel free to join in the fun!
Just dive in and feel free to leave comments/questions places. 

(Though it seems somepony intends to make
> brivla as well for some reason...?)
>

I'm of the opinion that they should be zi'evla of the type {x1 is a
[pokemon] of type x2, level x3, and trainer x4.} Maybe an x5, but I
don't know what for. I'm also not sure what's more important: level or
type. Perhaps the trainer place isn't a smart idea. What do we put
there if the pokemon is wild? ({noda} is nogood.)

So, this is totally making more sense now. I immediately conceded to having item names be brivla, because that's inherently awesome and dumb of me to not do earlier. However, I feel entirely certain that the pokemon should have both cmevla and brivla versions. And the cmene are more important. Here's why -- I catch a Pikachu, and the game's first question is whether to give it a nickname. Provided I don't name it, Pikachu is fully intended to be it's name.

So if I were to really get in gear and somehow be ready to put a version out when there was only time to get either cmevla or brivla of pokemon names, I'd take the cmevla first.

However, I think it will be really cool to have pokemon brivla as well. That would really show off a lot of Lojbanic awesomeness.

back to the issue
suppose we make up a broda for Pikachu -- broda2 as type is very useless, as the type does not vary from Pikachu to Pikachu, but from pokemon species to species.

Note that la selpa'i was suggesting a fu'ivla for pokemon: {pokmone}

So, how about:
pokmone: (rafsi: pok) x1 is a pokemon of species x2 and level x3
pokjutsi: x1 is a pokemon species of type(s) x2 with evolutions/family x3
broda poi pokjutsi: x1 is a [broda] at level x2 trained by x3
"Wild [broda] appeared!" can be "lo cilce broda ku tolcanci" or similar. Tanru can affect the semantics of place structures enough for that.
Evolutions can be described with {binxo}, and I would even go as far as to describe families as
lo lanzu be la .tsirespas. ce'o la .xederespas. ce'o la .musirespas. bei lo nu binxo
where, of course, we would prefer brivla for lo pokjutsi

mu'o mi'e .djos.

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