Re: North Wind and Sun - Interlinear

Joseph Fatula escreveu:
>>    Hi!
>>
>>    That's a silly comment to make, but here I go: that's the nicest
>> interlinear typography I ever saw! You chose the perfect font... even
>> in small sizes it is readable, and the colour makes it clear about
>> what is the original, what is the gloss. I hope you don't mind if I
>> get inspired by it : ).
>>
>> Edgard Bikelis.
>>
>>
>>
> The font in question is Palatino Linotype (as you may have seen in the
> page's code).  I use it as my default font since it contains both all
> the characters for biblical Greek, and all the characters for Kazak
> (extended Cyrillic).  The red color for the original was sort of an
> accident, but it did make it easier to tell things apart.
>
> What do you think of the grammar?  I know I didn't say much about it,
> but I was sort of hoping people might be able to deduce things about
> it through the interlinear.
>
    Almost all I know are indo-european (classical) languages, then I
may not be the best one to consider your language. Well... but as you
asked, you are the only one to blame, eh eh eh ; ). I guess the '-de' is
a... genitival suffix, am i right? Otherwise I think you would have
analised it differently. Anyway... no declensions...? (an affirmation
with 1/3 of question tone). I would like to know about the verb
architecture... and are there really different verbs for actions taken
at night or day? : ) Interesting idea, if so.

    Maybe I'm too fond of 'translationese', respecting half of the
original, half of the target language, but I would translate
differently, to preserve the circumloqu... the roundabout expressions:


The North Wind and the Sun were disputing for years about this: Which
one was the strongest?
Then a (female??) traveler came during the day, wearing a warm cloak.
They two talked like this: The first one to make him not to wear the
cloak will know (himself?) to be the strongest.
The North Wind was so strong to blow as to be impossible (for him?) to
blow any harder, but
the traveler still wore his cloak as to remain warm, and the North Wind
blew even more because of that,
finally giving up after the attempt.
The Sun then shone as to make everything warm, and the traveller hurried
to take his cloak off.

Thus the Sun made the North Wind keep saying that, for years to count:
The Sun is the strongest.


    Yep, I adorned it a bit : ).


Edgard Bikelis.

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