Re: [lojban] Translation

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

The first three are relatively easy, although the species names can be difficult, especially depending on how to go about translating them (i.e. for "nightingale" do we translate the common name which means "Night Songstress" (which I'll loosely and quickly translate as {lo sanga be ti'u lo nicte ku fetsi}) or use the Linnaen, "Luscinia megarhynchos" ({lo cipni be la.lusinia,megarintcos.}?)

The fourth one requires knowing what you mean by "Underware". Wiktionary just says it's a common misspelling of "underwear", and I'm sure that's not what you mean.

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:14 AM, <bas@underware.nl> wrote:

Here are the 4 lines of text which I’m trying to translate in Lojban. The translator can take lots of freedom, as I can imagine a literal translation is not possible. The most important would be that the structure remains the same. (This project is a hobby which started out of curiosity, but meanwhile grew out of hand. I’ve got 80 translations of this short text, but Lojban would be a real challenge).

Thanks in advance,

Bas

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Don’t be a cuckoo if you’re a nightingale. 

Don’t be a nightingale or a flycatcher, if you’re a dog. 

But anyone can make sound. 

We are “Underware”. 

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