Re: First Original Rokbeigalmki Text

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:49:44 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
>Congratulations on your first original text! I'm sure we'll see
>more of that soon.
Thanks!

>Since this is a beautiful text (and short), and Nik has translated
>it, I'll also throw my own translation in here (and maybe it becomes
>a translation exercise classic. :) I hope I've got the sense of it
>right. Here it is, in Drasel=E9q:
>        Fremp gimil v=FCs vel freth,
>        fremp elthrosot vel freth
>        Per =FCthar=FCr ar, padhr=FCr
>        th=E4n k=F3nissar b=FCrron
>        Fremp i giad kalg=E9ntasai
>        Freth not=FCr i giad.
>        Per     =FCthar=FCr   ar,   padhr=FCr
>        because heart.LOC be.3s tongue.LOC
>I assume you meant the physical tongue. I altered the line a
>bit to keep the rhythm. I also used the verb in singular, not
>plural, 'cos it refers to the (no)thing that never dies.
I don't remember why i made this plural....maybe intuition based on two
theories that i thought of afterwards:
1. _umzo`i`_ refers to the *memories*, and not to the actual "nothing".
2. since _nilhao_ (as opposed to _nahao_) incorporates the word _ilu_,
"all/every", it can be considered a collective singular or an individual
plural, and the plural sense is more appropriate to the meaning of the
poem.

>        Fremp i   giad kalg=E9ntasai
>        never PRT you  forget.1sFUT
>
>        Freth not=FCr    i   giad.
>      no    time.LOC PRT you
>
>There's no actual emphatic construction similar to "never ever",
>so I used _freth not=FCr_ 'in no time, in no occasion' to emphasize
>(instead of plain _fremp_ 'never').
>
>The particle _i_ is an object mark here; it's widely used with
>verbs of perception, and in general where the object is not
>affected by the verb.
>
>
>--Pablo Flores

-Stephen (Steg)
 ...bas bavel hasheduda, ashrey sheyeshalem lakh es gemuleikh
    shegamalt lanu - ashrey sheyohheiz venipeitz es olalayikh
    el hasala...

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