Yay, a parallel text! On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O Agorans, now gather and hear me speak, 'Tha Agorae masor forae nont Agorae = Agorans, nont = speak? > Beneath the fountain's spray and Unttri fontaine siphora Unttri = beneath, fontaine = fountain, siphora = spray? > Listen, amongst the sounds of the Heara, heara, const heara, Heara = listen, const = amongst? of? > mauve-dark ducks of our ancestors, listen, Blob'non Canards const statuian Blob'non = mauve-dark?, Canards = ducks, statuian = ancestors? > I am Rule-bound to speak, pont Rula (SHALENIAN) nont Rula = Rule, Rula (SHALENIAN) = Rule-bound, pont = I am? > of the Office bold, the Poet Laureate. Offocon kellyira an Poenon > Loiror. Offocon = Office, kellyira = bold/brave, an = the?, Poenon = Poet/poetry, Loiror = Laureate
> From Bards nominated, players elected, Bordoican nomin, Hoi Agoron > vitton Bordoican = (from) Bards, nomin = nominated?, Hoi = among/by, Agoron = players, vitton = elected? > the brave Laureate, SHALL by weekly Report Loiror kellyira SHALAM 'renMondan SHALAM = SHALL, 'renMondan = by weekly Report? > Submit a Proposal (O brave Proposal!) which nontforae Prana, kellyira Prana! nontforae = submit/publish, Prana = proposal > Among the People SHOULD be voted Hoi Agoron VULE pontforae VULE = SHOULD, pontforae = vote? misspelling of "nontforae"? > based on the wit and poetry it would add nomin mauda mauda Poenon son nomin = based on? (contradictory translation above) > to the Rules or game. Rula'non, Agora'non. Rula'non = rules, Agora'non = Agora > And if, in each and every Pre sona syl be syl Pre = if?, sona = in?, syl = each/every?, be = and? > of a twelvemonth sequential, non oniki mooronen pilparan > the Laureate at least one such Proposal Loiror birin moran Prana > has adopted, the Rules acclaim that e Yan pasan, Rula pon'nont Loiror pasan = adopted?, pon-nont = acclaim > achieves the winning condition of Lyre, venctor nontheraldon Liar. nontheraldon = winning condition? (I notice it has "nont" and "herald"), Liar = Lyre > and so it shall be true. Non isid- wsisb. Isb. Ii. That's about as much as I can get out of this. May I have another, please? --Warrigal of Escher
