Re: Multilanguage translation exercise, part 0

 --- John Cowan wrote:

> This is a new translation exercise, because I thought it would be
> interesting (and I felt like typing it in).  The extra special added
> feature attraction is that the original text is available in more than
> one natlang, so you can start from wherever you like.  The texts are
> a bit long, and may strain people's lexicons (and morphosyntax, and
> phonology) to the breaking point, so if you can't translate the whole
> thing, by all means translate part of it.
>
> [...]
>
> I am presenting two texts, a longer one and a shorter one; they are both
> excerpts from the same work.  They will follow shortly.
This sounds very intriguing to me... As soon as I finish struggling with the
Relay text and with my article for Language Creation, I'll most certainly be
your man (or at least give it a fair try).

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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