By the way, have you seen Luke in Ido on literaturo.ido.li? It's a
scanned pdf from the 1920s and is quite good.

2008/3/27, steve rice <[log in to unmask]>:
> --- MacLeod Dave <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>  > Just a note to the list to let everybody know that
>  > I'm going to slowly
>  > translate Ecclesiastes into LsF on the blog:
>  >
>  > http://latinosineflexione.wordpress.com/
>  >
>  > since that's the only book in the Bible that I know
>  > almost like the
>  > back of my hand.
>  >
>  > It's more of an exercise to find new words for the
>  > online dictionary
>  > and create something for people to read so it
>  > doesn't demand
>  > perfection but please be sure to comment or send me
>  > a message if you
>  > see errors or areas for improvement.
>  >
>
> I can check the translation. At the moment, after
>  several years of sporadic fiddling with an Ido New
>  Testament, I've bowed to the inevitable and am working
>  on Genesis:
>
>  1 En la komenco Deo kreis la cielo e la tero.  2 E la
>  tero esis senforma e dezerta, e tenebro esis super la
>  abismo; e la spirito di Deo flugetis super la surfaco
>  dil aquo.  3 E Deo dicis: Existez lumo; ed existis
>  lumo.  4 E Deo vidis la lumo, ke olu esis bona; e Deo
>  separis la lumo de la tenebro.  5 E Deo nomizis la
>  lumo Jorno, ed Ilu nomizis la tenebro Nokto.  Ed esis
>  vespero, ed esis matino, un dio.
>
>  6 E Deo dicis: Existez expansajo inter la aquo, ed olu
>  separez aquo de aquo.  7 E Deo kreis la expansajo e
>  separis la aquo qua esis sub la expansajo, de la aquo
>  qua esis super la expansajo; ed esis tala.  8 E Deo
>  nomizis la expansajo Cielo.  Ed esis vespero, ed esis
>  matino, la duesma dio.
>
>  9 E Deo dicis: La aquo kolektesez de sub la cielo aden
>  un loko, e la sikajo aparez; ed esis tala.  10 E Deo
>  nomizis la sikajo Tero, ed Ilu nomizis la kolektajo
>  dil aquo Mari. E Deo vidis, ke olu esis bona.  11 E
>  Deo dicis: La tero produktez vejantaro: planto
>  seminoza, fruktarboro kun frukto segun sua speco e kun
>  su semino en su, sur la tero; ed esis tala.  12 E la
>  tero produktis vejantaro, herbo kun semino segun sua
>  speco, e arboro, qua donas frukto, kun su semino en su
>  segun sua speco.  E Deo vidis, ke olu esis bona.  13
>  Ed esis vespero, ed esis matino, la triesma dio.
>
>  I'm still not sure whether that last bit should use
>  "speco" or "sorto." The translation is a bit
>  over-literal, but I prefer to begin there. Once I have
>  a good reference translation in Ido, I'll use it as
>  the basis for translations into Occ, Ia, and LFN. I
>  may even tweak the Eo version, which needs it.
>
>
>  Steve
>
>
I'm not sure whether it should be speco or sorto either. That's
probably a good question for the people on linguolisto to discuss.



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