Re: Poetic translation (was: ULT)

On Sun, 30 May 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> BP Jonsson scripsit:
>=20
> >   Tiel fartas la Shvedigho de Blake! :-)
>=20
> Or as they say in Esperanto versions of Monty Python,
> "Mi farcis in tia direkciono generala!"
>=20
Denden:

Sero  hohoch.zi.yaya  tan e.yai      loh=E9'yi       nech.zi!
1sHGH shit.AUG.DSP    TAN poss.2sLGH direction.DIM wind.AUG

1    first person
2    second person
s    singular
DSP  despising attitudinal suffix
TAN  particle tan ;-)
poss possessive
LGH  low grade honorific (i.e. not honorific at all)
HGH  high grade honorific
AUG  augmentative
DIM  diminutive (used here to convey the 'general'

Broyan stage language:

ya     neh'hoho   a.ca.tu.s           asfran'yi     nini.penur.li.ur     =
=20
1sMAN  wind.shit 2sFOOL.poss.OFFSTAGE direction.DIM INSULT.throw.FUT1.IMM=
=20

kunda!
DESP

I will insultingly thow a wind of shit in the little direction
of you, despicable offstage fool.


MAN      emploi of man or woman
FOOL     emploi of fool
OFFSTAGE offstage pronominal suffix

(let me see - when this frog uttered said utterance, was
the english bastard in view, or not. On the whole, I think
not...)

FUT1     first future: it will happen real soon now
IMM      immediate aspect
INSULT   insulting attitudinal prefix
DESP     despising sentence final particle.

(I was in doubt between despising kunda, angry chochu and t'awe emotioned.)

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt