Vreleksá

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Well, I'm going to try to translate a short story I wrote a few months ago. It's 2500 words, and has already been translated by myself (with lots of help from a friend) into Spanish.

First I'm going to attempt the translation into Ÿlärà, to get the grammar solidified, continue the wordbuilding and general feel for the language.

I'll do Áërt second, as I've already done some decent amount of translation into it, and I don't think I'd be able to do much more grammar work from this.

I'll post the story here if anyone wants to try this with me. It's about two autistic twins in a mental institution, and their struggle to reach people as they have difficulty expressing themselves verbally. I did some research before finalizing the story, and borrowed some ideas from real people.

So far I have the titles ( Wink

):

English: Emergence Labeled Autistic
Áërt: Jreëm sligeloaad ýcaadest /dʒrɛjim slɪgɛloɒd ʌɪcadɛst/
Ÿlärà: Äjëovỳ ÿs lỳgelodè aicädÿs /ɒɣjiov ɪs lɪgɛlod ʌɪcɒdɪs/
(yes, the lexicon for Áërt and Ÿlärà is very similar - most of the words are just spelled differently, but some are genuinely derived differently, due to some of the grammatical rules Ÿlärà has.)

EDIT: wow, some of the derivational words coming out of this are amazing! I already have multiple words for 'imaginary friend' (not actually in the story, but hey); and a word for delusion. I also discovered a new 'praiseful' term that could be used by my conculture (which has no solid form as of yet but of which I have some ideas). And I found I didn't even have a word for 'young' though I do have 'narcissist' (I'm sure I spelled that wrong).

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I'm not sure what you mean by "try this with me" but I'd love to see it! Very Happy

I often translate little story things I've written into my conlangs as well, but none of them are decent enough to post on the forum, haha. I hope it helps you develop Ÿlärà!
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

Indeed, good luck! I need to do something like this someday.

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Thanks! If you want a copy of the story, PM me your email so I can attach it.

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Would that be the translated version or the original? Or both? Can I have both? Very Happy

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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

I'll email a copy of the translated story to everyone interested once it's done. Be forewarned, the Spanish translation took nearly a month (with double checking etc), and that's for something I knew decently well (or at least, didn't have to gloss it before translating it Wink

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achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Awesome! PMing now. Whenever it's ready, can't wait to seeeeee. Very Happy

Have fun!
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Another interesting thing that's come out of the translation so far: three 'o's in a row :S

oóòmbálá (he appears [to be]) /oʊu:əmbele/

I've only done 180 words of translation so far Sad

I need to pick up the pace

StrangeMagic · Admin Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 640

I have done the first 72 words. >_< I should also pick up the pace. Hahaha. =D

15th August - I am now up to 251 words, only about a tenth done. Haha. >_<

16th August - It's not 451 words left. So yeah, still a long way to go.

17th August - I was too busy to do any. =(

18th August - 757 words. =D ^___^ So yeah, almost there, I guess. 1731 words left to go. Haha.

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Well, I've been away at Warped Tour (awesome!) so of course I did not do any translating but I will make up for it tomorrow, and will again lag behind as I am camping for four days the day after.

But again, good luck to all participating and thanks for your interest!

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I've done 1770 words over about 3 days in my free time. Maybe I'll finish tomorrow!! Very Happy

Should I send the Word file back to you, Aert?
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:37 am Post subject:

Wow, nice.

I would do the story, but it seems (from the title) like it would have a lot of words not used in this era of Emitare.

I need to get workin' on Modern Emitare....

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Wow sure! I'm still around 200 words because I just got back from camping, and of course other things and such...

I hope to finish this before school starts Wink

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Just wondering, how did you work with the numbers, ie what does your number system look like? Mine's base-25, so I had to use letters, and I had to convert each number but it's working pretty well.

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

Is that a generic 'how does your number system work?' question?

Emitare uses base 8.

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

yeah, basically

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I'm done!

Your 5-page story became 3 pages in Hemnälg... Laughing

Hemnälg numbers are... well, sort of base-10, but above 11 they're divided into 11s, but then... it's weird. Shocked

I'm going to post numbers, irregular and colloquial verbs, and dialectal differences on Hemnälg sometime this week.

I'll email you my translation then! Do you want the gloss (the really messy and supremely bad gloss, that is) as well?
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Wow that was fast!!

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I had to come up with a decent amount of vocab as well. Some basic stuff like "move" I didn't have yet! Shocked

I could've sworn I had that one at least...

As for the gloss, I pretty much have the translation in the top three pages (and it really is exactly three pages! (^_^) Funny how that worked out) and then the gloss a couple spaces underneath it. I'll send that to you, and if it makes your eyes burn to look at it I can divide it up, I don't know, line by line maybe. Wink

Good luck! Very Happy

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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

"move" - yeah, I still don't have some really basic vocab; however the feel I'm going for for the speciality vocab is a culture based around change, movement, evolution, etc. So there's lots of words for those (even separate verbs for change, and movement).