From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Tue Sep 10 18:18:40 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 11 Sep 2002 01:18:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 4968 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 01:18:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2002 01:18:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailbox-5.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.105) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 01:18:40 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-70-202.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.70.202]) by mailbox-5.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DAF314F04 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 03:18:38 +0200 (DST) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Le Petit Prince: Can we legally translate it? Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:20:12 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <166.13976f57.2aafd9dd@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin pc: > Robin: > << > Suggest something out of copyright, with reasonably modern language, > originally written in English, that someone besides you here has > actually read. > >> > > I thought I did this back in the Alice days, but OK again: > Any novel by Henry James or Edith Wharton. Wharton -- far too dreary. James -- maybe some of his more convoluted passages would make a good challenge. > If that is too much (but there are a few that are as short as Alice, > even after the draught), how about any non-dialect short story of > Mark Twain (1601, A Medieval Romance)? > If that is too small, how about The Dubliners or any part thereof, or > Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? > Origin of Species? > "On Denoting" by Berty? > I can't remember where Virginia Wolf's stuff is at the moment. > The first page -- and all the footnotes thereunto appertaining -- of > The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Excellent suggestion, this one, the Gibbon. > (East Lynne, Abie's Irish Rose -- probably not, since both use > dialect -- maybe Major Barbara or something a bit earlier or The > Importance of Being Earnest -- nice chance for lujvo there) > Three Men in a Boat. Importance of Being Earnest & Three Men in a Boat -- both excellent suggestions, though Three Men in a Boat would take stamina of xorxesian proportions. --And.