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Dawn Voyage
DAY 25: More translation!
In the spirit of the challenge of the month, I'm translating my favorite opening line of a novel ever.
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
I spent some time agonizing over the grammar on twitter last night and arrived at the following:
(The copula at the end is the "equative" verb I got the other day.)
I'm not sure if there is a distinction between 'boy' and 'he', in the sense of 'male person'... ah, but a boy is a YOUNG male person, so yes, there is.
Vocab I need is thus:
v. to deserve
adv. almost
n. boy, young male person
v. to be named, to be called, to have the name of... do we even have a simple verb for this in English...???
I'll do those in order so I have time to figure out what to do about that last one. For today:
hypisha - v. to deserve
shaus - adv. almost
Oh yes, and I want to put Eustace-Clarence-Scrubb into apfyma transliteration.
yustis-klares-skerab is probably a good attempt. >.>
In the spirit of the challenge of the month, I'm translating my favorite opening line of a novel ever.
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
I spent some time agonizing over the grammar on twitter last night and arrived at the following:
[to be called](past) [boy](nom) [Eustace Clarence Scrub](acc) [and] [almost][deserve](past) [copula](acc)
(The copula at the end is the "equative" verb I got the other day.)
I'm not sure if there is a distinction between 'boy' and 'he', in the sense of 'male person'... ah, but a boy is a YOUNG male person, so yes, there is.
Vocab I need is thus:
v. to deserve
adv. almost
n. boy, young male person
v. to be named, to be called, to have the name of... do we even have a simple verb for this in English...???
I'll do those in order so I have time to figure out what to do about that last one. For today:
hypisha - v. to deserve
shaus - adv. almost
Oh yes, and I want to put Eustace-Clarence-Scrubb into apfyma transliteration.
yustis-klares-skerab is probably a good attempt. >.>