Conlang: Re: TRANS: Without Words, Without Silence (Ed Heil, Feb 5 '00, 7:27)

>One thing that I failed to mention is that I took some liberties with the >text, most notably changing the name "Fuketsu" into "teacher." > >On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Patrick Dunn wrote: > >> After all this time on the conlang list, I finally offer a text to >> translate. It's from _The Gateless Gate_, a collection of Zen buddhist >> stories. >> >> 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 My Nameless Language: >> >> Agverbi, acsanan >> >> monaco rog de rabhu: "agdicende va acsanan, ec at tiposs le declar eta >> vero?" >> >> rabhu respond: "vel sember ezacar eta ver ba Cate nejef. a aves jisiru >> ba tavek de geni innumerabili de fli sui." >> >> Parallel >> >> Ag-verbi, ac-sanan >> without-words, without-silence >> >> The [g] in ag- turns to a [c] before unvoiced consonents. >> >> monoco rog de rab-hu: ag-dicende va ac-sanan, >> monk asked of teacher-his without-speaking and without-silence >> >> rog is the 3rd person masculine perfect conjugation of le rog, to ask. >> dicende, of course, is the gerund form of le dic, "to speak." >> >> ec at ti-poss le declar et-a vero?" >> how you you-can to declare DO-DEF truth? >> >> "at" is the rising register 2nd person pronoun, used with superiors, >> teachers, and in prayer. >> "le" is the infinitive marker >> "et" marks the direct object >> "a" is the definite article >> >> rab-hu respond: "vel sember e-zacar et-a ver ba Cate nejef. >> teacher-his replied:"I always I-remember DO-DEF spring in.the China south. >> >> vel is the falling register 1st person pronoun, used with inferiors, >> students, and the young. >> ba is a contraction of be+a "in the". >> Cate is a coined word for "china." >> >> a aves ji-sir-u ba tavek de geni innumerabili de fli sui." >> the birds they-sing in.the midst of kinds innumerable of flowers fragrant. >> >> jisiru is the imperfect third person plural of le sir, to sing. >>

From:	Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:	Saturday, February 5, 2000, 7:27