On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Everson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> On 10 Oct 2011, at 19:32, Adam Walker wrote:
>
> > I probably *could* do a translation into Carrajina, at least the grammar
> is up to it, IMO, but it would reaquire quite a bit of vocabulary
> construction.  (I don't have a word for "hatter" or "behead" or "dormouse."
> I'm not even sure ... not wait, I do have a word for rabbit.)
>
> Hat-seller?
>
>
Or hat maker.  A hatter can be either one, or even just a repairer of hats.
I don't have a general word for hat as yet, though I think, if I check
through my notes, I may have one or two specific kinds of hats.  Yes, it's
haphazard.


> > And of course "Jabberwocky" is a unique challenge for any language
> (though Klingon *does*
> > have "Jabberwocky").
>
> "Jabberwocky", of course, is from "Through the Looking-Glass", not "Alice's
> Adventures in Wonderland".
>
>

Yes, but I find it hard to think of the one without the other.


> > But I don't really care to translate it since 1) It's huge
>
> 27,000 words.
>
>

And I assume that is *without* TtLG.  Quite a large text.



> > and of little relevance to the culture and 2) It most likely doesn't
> exist in the C-a timeline.  (I know.  It's a loss, but probably most
> post-medieval works don't exist in recognizable form *there*.
>
> Ah, well you could have the same fun Byron Sewell has had in his
> forthcoming Appalachian English Alice.  He's taken it as a folk-tale,
> related by Granny. No croquet in the Appalachians, so they play baseball.
> It's a "localized" version, not just a translation.
>
>

Which would be fun in a way...


> > Now if there were a specific snippet you wanted to post as a translation
> challlenge, I'd probably give that a whirl.  And Padraic would probably add
> a badger or two and turn it into a Scripture portion for the Eastlands, to
> be read while choking down some of that VILE festival food.
>
> Something from "A Mad Tea-Party" perhaps. (I don't understand your quip
> about Padraic.)
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>


Ah, well, Padraic is legend around these parts for, among other things,
random additions of badgers to translation relay texts and the truly GASTLY
festival foods of his concultures -- think stuff like testicle sandwiches
and boiled sheep's eyeballs.  *gagging*  He makes Jervainian foods seem
scrumptious.

Adam