Re: Beginning a translation

Roger Mills said:
>
> However by
> merest coincidence, I recently began a Kash translation of a Brecht/Weill
> song, "Matrosen Tango" ('Sailors' Tango' from "Happy End"). So far, only 2
> lines....
That seems way too tedious for me.

I think what I'll do is pick a song, plug in suitably conlangy phoneme
sequences for the lyrics, *then* figure out the grammar and lexis to, umm,
account for those lyrics.

Lessee...

To the tune of "Saints":

Adubla fan...
Adubla fan...
Adubla fan stirmostan re...
Ba kyrmedustta gra plestaren,
Dubla fan stirmostan re!


(I'll leave the grammar/lexis thingy to others.)

-- Mark