From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Feb 15 13:29:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 15 Feb 2001 21:29:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 56371 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 21:29:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Feb 2001 21:29:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 21:29:23 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (187.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.187]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1FLTLE43194 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:29:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010215162530.00ad3d30@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:32:35 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] spuda be la'e lu sibdo be la lojban li'u In-Reply-To: <01021520360801.00810@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 08:36 PM 02/15/2001 +0100, Bjoern Gohla wrote: >having written that, i believe summarizing world news is a good thing to >start with. presumed the reader is up-to-date on global politics it should be >easy for him to get into the text. an advantage of dealing with news are >names, which are recognisable even by the unintroduced. Probably a good idea. I've always been prone to shy away from discussing such events, because I know that the American perspective on many world events is biased and sometimes offensive to those from other countries. >by the way, translating the classics would hardly do them justice, i doubt >that anyone has reached the proficiency yet to render goethe or >shakespeare appropriately in lojban, much less anyone to appreciate it. Nick Nicholas and Mark Shoulson, who helped render _Hamlet_ into Klingon, are almost certainly skilled enough to do it into Lojban. But that would be an extremely time-consuming task. A long time ago, I started on Burton's uncensored version of the Scheherazade story from the Thousand Nights and a Night (The Arabian Nights). It was going well and reasonably elegantly, but I had to drop it and haven't gotten back to it. I should. (Unfortunately the familiarity of the story wouldn't help much with reading the translation; the children's story has little relationship to the sexually explicit "real version".) lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org