Re: Brace Yourselves! A Song in Jovian! (~700 kB MP3)

Christian Thalmann wrote:
>    Auze ed gauze, o beoda naedsone
>    Iosu Crist' fi nadu.
>    I ere notter salbaedsone:
>    Audi Doemi lehadu.
>
> Which means more or less:
>
>    Listen and rejoice, o happy nation
>    Jesus Christ is born.
>    He shall be our salvation:
>    [The] High Lord's emissary.
>
>     http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/music/auzeedgauze.mp3
>
> Really beautiful. The language sounds much nicer than it looks.  Humph.
:-)))  No background noise that I could hear.

> PS:  I just noticed that I've mispronounced a letter in
> the song.  A hundred points extra for the one who finds
> out which one!  (Warning: Nontrivial)
Not at all sure, and I don't remember Jovian phonology-- but is it "Iosu" in
line 2?  I heard something closer to [jez@] or  [jEz@] (but it might have
been correct?? [jöz@], I'm not good with rounded front vowels)

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