Re: translation exercise

E fésto Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>:

> I was in a department store today and they were playing over the
> loudspeaker a (rather dreadful, IMHO) song which was popular here a few
> years ago called "Closing Time".  A repeated line in the chorus struck
> me as an interesting example of compressed English, and I thought it
> might make for a good subject of conlang translation.  Without further
> ado,
> here 'tis:
>
>         I know who I want to take me home.
>
> Maybe I've just been hypersensitized to complexity, and this is
> actually perfectly straightforward and transparent to non-natives, but
> it strikes me as the sort of thing that might present translation
> difficulties, and may not survive the operation as a single sentence.
Not too difficult in Atlantic:

      "Šnééve kes, gedve isto mé adâ dome."

"Sne:    -vE kEs  "gEd     -vE "is      -tO me Ad@ "dOmE
know-PROG.1S who, want-PROG.1S bring-AOR.3S me ACC home

<dome>, as in English used as an adverb homonymous with the noun meaning
"home".
[And also as in English, it doesnt matter whose in this case.]


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