Re: Chunky Monkey: very silly translation exercise

heh heh, I love it...

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>

| chunky monkey had a cow
| but he hasn't got it now

Well French and Spanish have been done and those are the only two I could do
that easily.  I'll try Russian soon.

In the meantime, a *preview* of the Tech translation, which is currently
unavaiable since I don't have all the words I need.  I do have "monkey" and
"cow", which are _maNga_ (N = eng) and _baq'ra_ for now.  The syntax of the
statement would be:

the-monkey-dat. the chunky-dat. exist-3.sg."there"-3.sg.(dat.) cow-nom.
but neg.part. to-him(dat.) now/today

The normal word order of Tech is VSO, but the subject got moved to the front of
the sentence for emphasis.  I want to make this rhyme like the original, which
shouldn't be too hard, considering Tech has virtual free word order and a lot of
synonyms.  I expect a lot of words for "cow"/"bull"/"cattle"/"ox"/"steer", each
with its own specialized meaning.

~DaW~


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