Re: translation exercise

    I sent the poem below to John Cowan and he sagely suggested:

>This looks like an excellent translation exercise for Conlang.

>                                Indictment
>
>              What are you up to, pig?
>              _Scraping myself in my sty._
>
>              What are you up to, pig?
>              _Dreaming of the gods who love me._
>
>              Don't lie, pig.
>              _Well -- thinking of the sow._
>
>              Go on, pig.
>              _I want to die elsewhere._
>
>              You're poking fun, pig.
>              _Joking, I'm afraid._
>
>              Enough, pig.  Own up.
>              _Something is lacking in me.  I gobble._
>
>                                                  Andre Frenaud
>                                                  Translated from the French
>
---
Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;) &  lingua-mang(a)leer
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

    "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language,
and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of
human comprehension." - Ezra Pound

    "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

    "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as
'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
                --- Blaise Cendrars

---
Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger

     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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riizijkl0! =
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