Re: nhwolgadhus mis moreil

My god.  You rhymed.  I'm truly impressed.

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, daniel andreasson wrote:

> Taking a break from studying Georgian, I decided to
> translate a piece from my favourite Swedish author,
> Tage Danielsson, into Seimi. Amazingly enough, I even
> succeeded in rhyming!
>
> Well, "sonn - ban" is somewhat stretching it, but
> some of the Seimi have a bit of a shwa-y /O/-phoneme,
> especially in unstressed positions, and _ban_ being
> unstressed gets a more shwa-like vowel as well... :-P
>
> In reality, this poem is somewhat longer, and it is
> *much* funnier in Swedish, but what do you expect?
> Anyway, here we go:
>
>               * * * * *
>
> Lea lichëlas sonn gean nhwolgadhus mis moreil
> lea, ath cwodal seatha jurdëlaidh sonn geill.
>
> Jordhëchae Nero easa bwochëweisu ala,
> ath lei dath bwolin geill jala.
>
> Eibël, munn ejen cwaewëlaidh sonn,
> chealcae Cein, muth lei sonn ilmanith ban.
>
> Lea lichëlas sonn gean nhwolgadhus mis moreil
> lea, ath cwodal seatha jurdëlaidh sonn geill.
>
>               * * * * *
>
> Lea        lichëlas sonn gean    nhwolgadhus mis moreil
> be:3SG:PRS happy    3SG  who:GEN rule        of  moral
> 'Happy is he, who has as his guiding principle'
>
> lea,       ath  cwodal seatha         jurdëlaidh sonn geill.
> be:3SG:PRS that before should:3SG:PRS think:INF  3SG  probably
> 'that you should probably think before you act.'
>
> Jordhëchae Nero easa      bwochëweisu ala,
> thought    Nero not:until hospital    in
> 'Not until at the hospital, did Nero think'
>
> ath  lei dath bwolin geill    jala.
> that was that fire   probably crazy
> 'that that fire thing was probably insane.'
>
> Eibël, ejen         cwaewëlaidh munn sonn,
> Abel   not:1SG:PAST mean:INF    1SG  3SG
> 'Hey, Abel, I didn't mean it,'
>
> chealcae     Cein, muth lei sonn ilmanith ban.
> say:3SG:PAST Cain  but  was it   too:late then.
> 'said Cain, but then it was too late.'
>
> Lea lichëlas sonn gean  nhwolgadhus mis moreil
> is  happy    3SG  whose rule        of  moral
> 'Happy is he, who has as his guiding principle'
>
> lea, ath  cwodal seatha jurdëlaidh sonn geill.
> is   that before should think      3SG  probably
> 'that you should probably think before you act.'
>
> Did you like it? Does anyone have any comments? :)
>
> daniel
>
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