The Dumb Week – Day 3
This is the third day of The Dumb Week challenge, which consists of translating grammatically correct sentences that make no sense. Today’s sentence is:
Everything and more is interdependant on the relatedness of motivation, subcultures, and management.
Translate it to your conlang(s) and, optionally, include the IPA transcription, the gloss or other information. Thank you for participating!
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For nevira:
Everything and more is interdependant on the relatedness of motivation, subcultures, and management.
IPA: ðɔɾɔ mɛɾaj nɔ lɔnɔj gandɛjdi u vanituka mɛfruna, zɛrf viɛnina nɔ prɔpuna
Literal translation: All things and more depend on the relation of motivation, of below cultures, and management
I see that this challenge is not being very successful. If you have any ideas for the next challenge, please tell me!
It’s a great challenge! It’s just that a) we’re not a big crowd here and b) some of us (like me, heh) don’t have the vocab (or syntax) for sentences like this.
a) is a big problem!
b) and like me! In this sentence, for example, I had to come up with seven words, and I used twelve words. That is, more than the half! As for the syntax, while it’s true that they are long, they are all simple sentences, i.e. a single verb.
But yes, I understnad that they are difficult. Do you have any ideas on how could we make an easier challenge?
Haha yes, but by “complex” I mean anything above a basic “he ate it” type deal because my poor conlang is still newborn, hah.
I still think this is a good challenge! When I get back from vacation (or maybe even next week) I was thinking of starting up my weekly vocab challenges again, which are a bit more open-ended so sometimes easier for newbs. But I still think translation challenges like this are super important and useful.