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Re: I'm out of it!

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, October 21, 2000, 17:35
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