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Re: [lojban] Translation




On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:44 PM, lorxus <coronacoreanici@gmail.com> wrote:
va'o do naitingeilrcpi
<-- this  is not gendra. it breaks apart into two words.
 
vau ko na kukurcpi
.i va'o do gerku vau ko na naitingeilrcpi ja sfanykavbu

I agree that "fly catcher" is not a scientific name. 
flycatcher=Any of many kinds of birds, of the families Muscicapidae (in Europe and Asia) and Tyrannidae (in the Americas), that catch insects in flight.
 
.i ku'i ro da ka'e selsance
.i la'oi Underware cmene mi'a

 .i zo'oi Underware cmene mi'a


-2'i Lorxus

On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 3:14:39 AM UTC-5, b...@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

==


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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