Re: TRANS: Happiness

>On Saturday 20 October 2001 11:41, Muke Tever wrote:
>> "To find happiness, one should not seek it."
MUCH easier than the Flaubert.....

Kash:  vara tromat e ambinda, ta hanjayi (yu) haminja
in order / find / def/ happiness/ not/ 2s-must /seek (it).
Matches the sense of the original-- happiness will come when least expected.
It even rhymes, and scans (if you illegally elide e_a..:  va.ra.TRO.mat
ya.MBI.nda, ta.ha.NJAY.(y)u.ha.MI.nja)

Slight variant:  (same first clause), ta hacayi (yu) haminja
In order to find happiness, you don't have to look for it (i.e. it's all
around you, or within you)

Another variant, a construction (kendi....kendi) I've been puzzling over
lately:

kendi ta haminjato e ambinda, kendi yu hatromat 'If you will/do not search
for happiness [ and you agree not to], then you will find it.'  A condition
or bargain that a Spirit might impose on you. _minja_ in the future tense;
in the present it's just a statement of possibility, in the past,
contrary-to-fact (the rather rueful "if you had not sought it [but you did]
, you would have found it.")

Finally a more generic and cryptic,  traminja, tromatni 'not-seeking,
finding'; vice-versa works too.  Perhaps Yoda is a Kash (more likely a Gwr,
from the looks of him)

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