Re: Translation exercise was Re: What _Le Monde_ thinks of conlanging

On 14 July, Peter Clark wrote:

>         ObConlang: how does your conlang(s) translate "This absolute
futility is not
> without charm"? Or, if you want to go for the longer version, "All this
> doesn't have, strictly speaking, any purpose, but this absolute futility
is
> not without charm."

In rtemmu it would be:

inunu rbugmdaza`k  auag  wuh ygarxa  vsho`nin.

o` = [O]; sh = [S]; a` = [&];

i = the speaker is (reflecting that)
nu = he/she is  subjectively, stubbornly unchanging  ;-)
nu = his/her concept of futility is absolute and unchanging  ;-)

rbug- = neither objectively nor subjectively
mdaz = resulting process from a prior process
 ( thus
rbugmdaz =  the process of futility)
-a`k = this

auag = Imperative conjunction

wuh = unknown rate of change (or unwilling to
             specify a rate of change as a way of diminishing
             the importance of the ygarxa to the speaker.)
ygarxa = the process of being charming

vsho`nin = although


Dan Sulani
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