History: Silly poems

Source of version: 4 (current)

~pre~ le do zilcrino tu'a do co'u jimpe ge'ecu'idai ~/pre~ ''Now that is an untranslatable knee-slapper!'' I can translate it, even keeping the haiku form... given some liberty of interpretation: ~pre~ Your Ideal of green no longer understands you. But what do you care? ~/pre~ But you're right, that's not very much like the original! ''mi'e ((jezrax))'' ''I think zilcrino means zi'o crino, which means, "green thing for which green-ness isn't an applicable concept", as in the famous line "green ideas sleep furiously". Also, dai doesn't mean a question; I can't tell if you took that into account or not. But breaking the syllable count, I render up the terrible:'' * ''ge'ecu'idai'' means "You must feel some unspecified emotion to a neutral degree." I think "But what do you care?" is about as good a rendition of that as we can hope for! ''zo'o'' ** ''Only Lojban can convey the delicate difference between ge'ecu'i and ge'eru'e!'' Your green thing for which green-ness isn't an applicable concept Stops understanding about you. You're apathetic in your unconcern. ''Somehow it lacks the punch of the original!'' ---- Perhaps somebody would like to add the classical limericks to this page? * ((doi dirba)) * ((nu porpi lo ckana)) * ((se zasti lo ninmu poi cisma)) * ((le flira te kerfa lo nanmu)) * ((le mumvlali'ipemci)) ---- ((Lojban rock lyrics))