Re: I'm out of it!
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> | 
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| Date: | Saturday, October 21, 2000, 17:35 | 
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The Gray Wizard wrote:
>> From: Jim Hopkins
>>
>> Jeff Jones wrote:
>>
>> "I'm out of it even when I think I'm in it!"  I really like that!  I can
>> sympathize, me too!  I liked that saying so much I wanted to translate it
>> into Druni and then realized it it going to need more thought!
>>
>> Any other translations?
>
>This is very idiomatic.  One would have to do some serious paraphrasing to
>translate it and then the play on words would be lost.
Very true.  Still, a preliminary Kash version:  mam cakondrop, kambun pilami
nakayi "I  clueless, even-if  thought-my definitely-not"... no immediately
available word for 'with it, in it, hip, etc.'
Pron. mandZakóndrop, kàmbumbilámi nakáj