Re: TRANS: Without Words, Without Silence

Am 02/04 23:43  Patrick Dunn yscrifef:

> In English:
>
> Without Words, Without Silence
>
> A monk asked his teacher: "Without speaking, without silence, how can you
> express the truth?"
>
> His teacher observed: "I always remember springtime in southern China.
> The birds sing among innumerable kinds of fragrant flowers."
>
In Brithenig:

Seint llo Pharol, Seint ill Sileint

Yn monag rhoaf sew maistr: "Seint parolar, seint ill sileint, co
bode'gw ysprefir lla werdad?"

Sew maistr cathaf: "Eo sempr'i sewen d'ill gweran in ill druith di Gina.
Llo h-ugell chanhan intr llo sorth annyferabl di llo fflur saburus."

Seint   llo   Pharol, Seint   ill   Sileint
Without the.p words   without the.m silence

Yn monag rhoaf      sew   maistr: "Seint   parolar,  seint   ill
a  monk  ask.past.s one's master   without speak.inf without the.m

sileint, co  bode'gw                ysprefir    lla   werdad?"
silence  how can.pres.2p-you.formal express.inf the.f truth

Sew   maistr cathaf:       "Eo sempr'ui    sewen  d'ill    gweran  in
One's master observe.past.s I  always-self remind of_the.m spring in

ill   druith di  Gina.
the.m south  of  China

Llo   h-ugell chanhant     intr  llo   sorth annyferabl  di llo   fflur
The.p birds   sing.pres.3p among the.p kind  innumerable of the.p flower

saburus."
fragrant.

I think I have cheated using cathar, to mean observe by speaking when it
is accurately meant to be observe by seeing.  I shall have consider what
the correct verb should be.

I have also decided that mutated mi/mui elides after consonants.

- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

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