From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Mon Jan 28 06:35:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 28 Jan 2002 14:35:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 68342 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 14:35:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Jan 2002 14:35:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 14:35:11 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:09:20 +0000 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:35:02 +0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:34:32 +0000 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Bible translation style question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810630 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin Pierre: #On Sunday 27 January 2002 20:54, And Rosta wrote: #> I think that by encouraging the development of a normative style you #> are inhibiting future generations of Lojban users from making full use #> of Lojban's resources.=20 # #I don't think so. This is just a normative style (which can be bent, as I= =20 #already have, and I noticed another place where I forgot to bend it) for=20 #prose narrative. The style of complex Levitical rules will be quite=20 #different, as are the styles of various kinds of poetry. Currently the=20 #contrast between my style and Mark's in the first three chapters of Genesi= s=20 #is jarring. Your original message made it seem (to me at least) that you were=20 asking not so much how best to stylistically render Old Testament texts or how to resolve clashes between styles of collaborating translators, but about style in general -- e.g. use of multiple FA within a single bridi. My response pertained only to matters of style in general. #> In addition, any normative style is going to #> be strongly SAE-influenced at this stage, which is to'e lojbo. # #Here are a couple of sentences in my style. Do they sound SAE? # #gambire ji'i civo da #(from a page which I'm planning to add to the Wiki; prose, but not=20 #narrative)=20 #jipyda'iga'a fi ko le bitmu le vorme #(perhaps this will be in a battle story; so far it's the only sentence of = it) no, they don't --And.