translating...

[Tom Gysel]

Trying my hands on a translation from English
to tp. How would you revert this back to English?
I'm curious if the meaning gets across:
 
ni li ike tawa jan Alis: ona li lon poka telo lili
li lon poka meli pi mama sama li pali ala.
meli pi mama sama li lukin e kulupu lipu.
tenpo mute lili la jan Alis li lukin lili e ona.
ona li jo ala sitelen.
 
thank you. Tom.
 
 




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[John E Clifford]

Opening passage of Alice in Wonderland. nice but 'jo e sitelen ala'




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Trying my hands on a translation from English
to tp. How would you revert this back to English?
I'm curious if the meaning gets across:

ni li ike tawa jan Alis: ona li lon poka telo lili
li lon poka meli pi mama sama li pali ala.
meli pi mama sama li lukin e kulupu lipu.
tenpo mute lili la jan Alis li lukin lili e ona.
ona li jo ala sitelen.

thank you. Tom.



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[Jim Henry]

Post by Tom Gysel
Trying my hands on a translation from English
to tp. How would you revert this back to English?

Pretty well, but I recognized the original before I had read the whole
passage, so it's not an ideal test of comprehensibility; better would
be a translation of something more obscure, or something original.