Re: Simple translation exercise?

At 23:34 13/06/03, Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Ian Spackman <ianspackman@B...> wrote:
>
> > The weekly translation exercises, however, would be a but ambitious to
> > start with, it seems to me.  Does anyone have any simple texts (basic
> > vocabulary, nothing terribly complex syntactically) I might try to
>translate?
>
>I was just going to post a sentence Jon, Nata and I were busy
>translating in IRC.  =)
>
>"We are sitting in the night, and like the night, we are silent."
Hm, interesting.  Nothing like a simple sentence to make you realise how
things aren't that simple. :)  I think I can do this one though; I'll take
a crack at it tomorrow.

I was looking more for a few very simple sentences that form a connected
passage, though, ideally.  (Is this an odd request?  I suppose I'm just
getting frustrated looking at bits of other people's languages and not
being able to join in. :)  Maybe really I should wait until I can cope with
more....)

Ian

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