Re: translations in Tr:pang & Linga

David Peterson wrote:


><<"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for
>bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt stars."
>
>                    - Gustave Flaubert, _Madame Bovary_>>
>
>    Wow, this was a lot harder than I thought it'd be.  Nevertheless, it's
a
>beautiful sentence.
Indeed.  It stretched the limits of Kash vocabulary; and I was hesitant to
create some of the very specific words.....(ç, c-cedilla, is [S])

e açindi kaçale yaworana nimu matraci, re ne mitatam tatam trivus uçoñi
korandañi osola*, kambun miteçayu liri e rinda re yakenahañuto añoloçe.

def/speech/human/3s-like/pot/broken-dim./ REL/ it-dat/we-beat-rhythmically/
rhythm/inept/purpose-of/dancing-of/bears/even-if/we-yearn/with-respect-to/de
f/music/REL/3s-affect-soul/stars-dat.

*oso 'bear' < Span., not enough native fauna yet.  It will probably be some
kind of big lizard that galumphs from foot to foot in a mating dance.......