TRANS: Simple translation exercise!

 --- Ian Spackman skrzypszy:

> The weekly translation exercises, however, would be a but ambitious to
> start with, it seems to me.  Does anyone have any simple texts (basic
> vocabulary, nothing terribly complex syntactically) I might try to translate?
Well, I think I have exactly what you are looking for. This is the "get-to-know
translation exercise" that was posted by Christian Thalmann to Romanceconlang
about eight months ago. I like it, because the sentences were quite simple and
the vocabulary basic. Of course, the response was quite high; there were
translations into Jovian, Kerno, Jelbäzech, Montreiano, Wenedyk, Rumiya,
Aingeljã, Mondezo, and Daisilingo. Perhaps more.

Here it is:

1)  This tavern/bar isn't as good as it used to be.
2)  What are you doing?  I told you to leave them where they were!
3)  I would embrace the world if I could.
4)  The cat ate the mouse I gave her like a tiger [would].
5)  Yes, I've heard you, and no, I don't want to buy it.
6)  Welcome!  Here's your room key.  -- Thank you.  --  You're welcome.
7)  Sir, could I please have a glass of water?
8)  Your mother was a prostitute.  (Or equally insulting idiom.)

My version in Wenedyk can be found here:
<http://www.geocities.com/wenedyk/language/texts#translation_exercise_1> (you
can here the sentences too by clicking on the number).

Have fun,
Jan

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