I Am A Little Teapot of Borg

[nemorathwald]

When I get all steamed-up, resistance is futile. You will hear me shout. You will be tipped over and poured into Borg. By Bill Putt's request, for the amusement of him, delosd, dawnwolf, and cosette_valjean, here is "I'm A Little Teapot" translated into Lojban and back into English.

mi'e cmalu tcatipax (MEEheh SHMAloo CHAteepach*)
noi tordu je plana (noi TORdu zheh PLAHnah)
ti po'emi veljai (tee POhemee VELzh-eye)
ti po'emi tubnu (tee POhemee TOOBnoo)
fau jaurgapci tirna lo siclu (fow zhowrGAHPshee TEERnah loe SEEshloo)
ko carna je rinci mi (koe SHARnah zheh REENshee mee)

*(X is pronounced as in the Scottish "loCH" or Spanish "meXico.")

Self-introductory vocative: the speaker is a small (in unspecified properties or dimensions as compared with a standard or norm) pot, kettle, urn, tub, sink or deep container to contain a quantity of beverage brewed from leaves,

which is incidentally short in the longest dimension or direction by an unspecified measurement standard, and plump, fat, obese, excessively thick, bulbous, or swollen by an unspecified standard.

Immediate demonstrative it is the speaker's inalienably-possessed locus that is gripped, held, clutched, seized or hugged.

Immediate demonstrative it is the speaker's inalienably-possessed length of tubing, pipe or hollow cylinder of unspecified material.

In the event of water vapor, audibly hear a whistle, note, tone or melody.

Imperative-you turn or rotate the speaker in an unspecified direction around an axis that is flat, level, or horizontal in an unspecified gravity or frame of reference, and drain, strain or flush liquid or fluid from the speaker through the typical orifice by force of gravity.

Comments

[matt-arnold.livejournal.com]

He titled it The "Jumping Frog." In English. Then in French. Then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil, by Mark Twain. Here is a link to that.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

Your memory's better than mine. Thank you.

I only wanted to make sure you knew of the Twain story, in case you didn't.
:-)