Re: TRANS: a haiku

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: TRANS: a haiku


> FFlores wrote:
> >     If everything's green
> >     and sun falls and there's wind
> >     I am here at home
>
> Might as well try:
[attempts snipped]
> Samazáznaki
> Yakwínnaki wakadí
> Launíuki bliv
>
> [sa.mA'zaz.na.Ci
> ja.'kwen.na.Ci wA.kA'di
> lAw'ni.u.Ci blev]
me too, me too, me too!

Here comes the Chleweyish version:

  romma quappe syo
  gongo wage zoce syo
  onsa doy hoove

 ["rOm.m@ "k?wap.p@ So
  "gON.go "hwA:.G@ "tso:.tS@ So
  "On.s@ dOj "hO:.v@]

It has a rithm like
  tadi tadi tá
  tadi tadi tadi tà
  tadi ta tadi

Glossed:
  romma      quappe   syo
  everithing is-green if-that's-the-case

  gongo wage  zoce     syo
  sun   falls it-winds if-that's-the-case

  onsa doy hoove
  home I   dwell

-- Carlos Th