_Tr:'pang_, a sample (was Re: Rating Languages)

In a message dated 25.09.2001 06:57:08 AM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

>Obconlang: Anyone have, er, Silly Songs--nonsense, humor,
>child-oriented--for their conlangs?  I don't even have songs, period, but
>it'd be fun to hear what others have...
>
    ok, this is what I have so far in Trepang... still needs some major work
on the syntax & lexicon... :::chants to self: "progress not perfection,
progress not perfection, progress not perfection...":::

TR:'PANG > kree'ol (akr:'lekt) b:'long Boo'dd:'Daam'm:'kr:ssee b:'long
Asoka'nee'zh:
<<Trepang - [the] creole (acrolect) of BuddhaDhammacracy of Asokanesia>>

    Bray'dee'pod no sod ee an'teek bum. Nomo'dan drag'ass ... fah'sin
awr'da-good ... wi'lee see'mee'la dz: b:'long pai'san-s:r'viva ee din'kum
to'da-sum.

    _NoTE_: the orthography is Roman alphabet (of course).  _Ree'fawrm ee
Spel'lin  b:'long 2002 b:'long Tr:'pang_ was based - somewhat - on the
re-spelling system used in the 1999 edition of the _Encarta World English
Dictionary_.

INTERLINEARS:

    <<Bradypod(s) no sod(s) AP antique bum. No-more-than drag-ass, ...
fashion order-good, ... wiley similar MKR belong person(s)-survive AP dinkum
sum-total.>>

<<Sloth(s) no awkward-thing(s) AP old lazy. No-more-than slow, ...
methodical, ... sly similar MKR to person(s)-survive AP true all.>>

    AP- Adj. Particle, Tr:pang uses an invariant predicative adjective
particle when more than two adjectives &/or a clause follow :)
    MKR - Marker Particle used in comparative phrases

ROUGH INT'L. STANDARD ENGLISH TRANSLATION (English has nouns that are
singular or plural, Tr:pang doesn't unless "marked" by modifiers):

    The sloth is not a lazy old sod. Similar to all true survivors, just
slow, methodical and sly.

    CONCULTURAL NOTE:
    Use of such [Greco-]Latinate lexical items such as "Bradypod," "antique,"
"similar" et cetera are due to looong history of exposure to Portugese
explorers & traders, French Indo-Chinese anti-pirate forces, Italian
Franciscans & Spanish Jesuits, educated British/Cantonese from Hong Kong (for
the past 300-so years), South Pacific islanders who spoke (& wrote) varying
forms of Pidgin English, British-/American-educated Japanese spies & military
occupiers, American soldiers & expats (& their slang [since the Boxer
Rebellion]) and, of course, English-speaking anthropologists, archaeologists,
historians, linguists, & other similar blinkin' riff-raff as well as a large
group of English-speaking Theravada Buddhist monks responsible for both
education and government. (Before Independence, Asokanesia was Thai-ruled by
UN-mandate for 3 decades, &, before that, highly influential - to varying
degrees - in these South China Sea islands that are "a true South East
Asian/South Pacific 'melting pot.' ")