[lojban] Re: Any volunteers for "Phrasebook. A multilingual dictionary"? (No Lojban skills required)

["la .lindar." <lindarthebard@gmail.com>]

> > The general idea is that you visit any country (even if it's Lojbanistan),
> > open two columns (in your mother tongue) and in the language of the country
> > you are visiting. The phrasebook must give you the ability to speak
> > (given that you have some knowledge of the language).

This seems to be a trend with amateur translators in our community.

If you translate, please read what I am saying very carefully and make sure everybody knows this.

Translate the intent of the original text, not the words.

If you translate it word-by-word to Lojban, it is bad.

If you don't believe me, translate something said by a jbocre word-for-word into English.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

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