Re: Who's crazy?

>myo yest moonkai... tiota yest moonkai... kerek afek tehem yest
>moonkai...
>(so the last one would be translated "of we all be (are) crazy"
>(...)
>nicole
nifty. ;)

>Not uncommon, I think.  Verbs that express stative adjectives?  Anyway, I
>did notice something else.  Rather than putting the [i] present tense
>ending, I wrote /ii/ once.  Itty bitty mistake.  It actually came from a
>project I'm doing.  I'm translating Shakespeare's "The Tempest" into
>Megdevi, and it's too difficult on my IPA font to constantly type [I] and
>[V], which both require extra buttons.  That reminds me...  I never
>realized how difficult it was to translate Shakespeare.  There's this
>line near the beginning of Act I, Scene ii.  Prospero indicates to
>Miranda that she should ask about her past, and she says that she has
>before: "You have often begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd and left
>me to a bootless inquisition, concluding 'Stay: not yet'"
>A "bootless inquisition"?!  What the heck is that?!  I don't even know in
>English!  I've read this play at least four times, and I can only imagine
that every time I read that line I just passed it off and simplified it in
my
mind as, "He started to tell her a bunch of times, but didn't", which is
essentially what the passage means.  But really, how the heck would you
translate a "bootless inquisition"?  Is it implying that inquiries are
people
and that if they're not answered then they give up their boots?  I just
cannot wrap my brain around this metaphor.

-David


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The Aquamarine Demon
Gesám ayi mozuká. Gesám dohíng mozuká. Gesám adohíng mozuká!

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