Yes, I have the current draft of the English version:
"My name is Daniel Eliot Boese. I was born in the city of Winnipeg on the twelfth day of October in the year 1976 AD. I live about (distance, direction) of Niagara Falls. I like to read a lot and to hike. When I die, my blood will be removed and replaced with a substance that does not make ice crystals, and then my body will be made very cold. I would like to live and to read and to hike again. If you know how to heal me and help me to live, please do so. Thank you for your time."
The current set of notes: For translations that depend on sound: 'Boese' rhymes with 'rose'. For translations that depend on meaning: I've seen 'Daniel' translated as 'God is judge' or 'God's judge'; 'Eliot' as 'The Lord is God' or 'height'; and 'Boese' derives from a Germanic word for 'wicked'. As I'm both an atheist and a member of an ethics board, I personally find the translation 'judge of the height of God's wickedness' amusing, however technically inaccurate it may be. ('Winnipeg' derives from 'muddy/cloudy waters', and 'Niagara' from 'neck' meaning 'neck of land' or 'strait', though the tourist board suggests 'thundering waters'.) If there is a more appropriate calendar for the language's main culture than Gregorian, the date should be translated into that; the same goes for the measurement system. The 'substance' is a liquid, a sort of anti-freeze.
On Saturday, 25 January 2014 11:15:49 UTC-5, .asiz. wrote:
Do you have the text? You may try just posting it here.
On 25 January 2014 14:04, DataPacRat
<datap...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm working on a small project, somewhat similar to the Long Now
Foundation's Rosetta Project in concept if not in detail, which
involves translating a short text - about a hundred words in English -
into a variety of other languages, to eventually be placed onto a
long-term archival medium in a sort of time capsule. I'd like one of
the languages used to be Lojban. If I may ask, is this list an
appropriate venue to ask for assistance with this?
Thank you for your time,
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