Re: New Translation Exercise (was: Re: Trial of the century?)

Steg Belsky wrote:

> Anyone care to translate this into your conlangs?:
> "a great freedom for all the children, and that they won't tell us what
> to eat and what to think.  that they won't ask us to do what we don't
> want to, and that they won't say things that we don't understand.  that
> all the children will go up into the trees and that all the adults will
> become small!"
Hard to jump in mid-verse, of course. For this to work for me, I had to
take the liberty of assuming that earlier on it says something to the
effect: "I/we wish/hope that (there will be)..." It also would've been
nice to know who "they" is (the big, bad adults? the powers that be?)
before committing to a Ge'arthnuns pronoun. Nevertheless:

...so"i shmaio"ts zhari'o"t li' cho"ik se'kletso"il fanfeto"il
haumic,nakh,
kfo" gu" ngeg li' pantalal, gu" makhlama la chensat hu"glozh kfo"
chensat hu"ho"vaz sho, haungamath.
Gu" ngeg li' pantalal, gu" makhlama la che helkethset, veget pantala la
ba dravnath u"raf sho, hu"dravnath sho, haunsko"meth,
kfo" gu" ngeg li' helkevec,o", pli'gu" pantala la hesur-ho"n sho,
haungamath.
Gu" cho"ik se'kletso"ip fanfeto"ip li' chauk bursaush haulomakadiz,
kfo" gu" chauk mne'gaiersaup fanferaup li' ku"varaup hauvano"i.

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so"i shmaio"ts zhari'o"t li' cho"ik se'kletso"il fanfeto"il haumic,nakh,
a freedom/nom. great/nom. future the-pl. children/dat. all/dat.-pl.
exist/there be-speculative mood

kfo" gu" ngeg li' pantalal, gu" makhlama la chensat hu"glozh kfo"
chensat hu"ho"vaz sho, haungamath.
and "that" neg.-they/nom. fut. neg.-us/dat, "that" we/nom. pres.
what/acc. eat-imperative mood and what-acc. think-imp. [end of sub.
clause marker], say/tell-spec.

gu" ngeg li' pantalal, gu" makhlama la che helkethset, veget pantala la
ba dravnath u"raf sho, hu"dravnath sho, haunsko"meth,
"that" neg.-they/nom. fut. neg.-us/dat., "that" we/nom. pres. the
that/acc., neg.-which/acc. neg.-we/nom. pres. [verb connector] do want
[end of sub. clause marker], do-imp. [end of sub. clause marker], ask
for-spec.

kfo" gu" ngeg li' helkevec,o", pli'gu" pantala la hesur-ho"n sho,
haungamath.
and "that" neg.-they/nom. fut. thus, so neg.-we/nom. pres.
understand-conclusive mood [end of sub. clause marker], say/tell-spec.

gu" cho"ik se'kletso"ip fanfeto"ip li' chauk bursaush haulomakadiz,
"that" the-pl. children/nom. all/nom.-pl. fut. the-pl. trees/loc. go
up-spec.

kfo" gu" chauk mne'gaiersaup fanferaup li' ku"varaup hauvano"i.
and "that" the-pl. adults/nom. all/nom.-pl. fut. small/nom-pl.
become-spec.

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