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# A NewTiny program to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
Begin: [ " Enter Celsius Temperature: " ] ?
[ ? ] Celsius
[ 9 5 / Celsius * 32 + ] ? CRLF
HALT
Celsius= #declare a variable
Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!
Anyways, this is a really good translation, although all those "spread" things could use more idiomatic single-word translations. I applaud!
Vocative is an interesting thing. When I first read about it, I dismissed it as useless. However, since then I have used it in my largest conlang project Shiofaioth (linked to in another comment) and also here, because it's just so nice.
hey, you light in darkness
Light is a paint
Darkness is like a canvas
It's like organization in chaos
You spread the paint
In order to spread help, spread light
In order to spread strength, spread organization
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Or, the same in Finnish:
Sinulle, valo pimeydessä
valo on maalia
pimeys kuin kanvas
kuin järjestystä kaaoksessa
levität maalia
levittääksesi apua, levitä valoa
levittääksesi voimaa, levitä järjestystä
(I really really like the vocative case. I wish Finnish had it!)
Thank you for your interest! There are couple of ways in which I try to accomplish that goal. First is the verbal pre- and postpositions, which force you to be open about your sources and the degree of voluntariness of what you describe (of course nothing prevents straight up lying, but at least whatever you claim is explicit and ready for inspection). There's another thing that I now realize I haven't even documented yet, even though it has been one of my main ideas. That is the lack of single word ways to say one "must" or "should" or "may" do something, with the expection being taht you explicitly say who orders or allows the action. Of course there are always ways to go around this, but the aim is that if you try to hide authority behind words, it would be clunky and noticeable.
"It's purpose is to be as unsuitable for authoritarian propaganda as possible, so that it is difficult to hide power structures behind word choices."
Can you explain a bit how it does that? I couldn't see how that works from a quick read through that document.
Here is an example I have worked on: https://github.com/SurrealPartisan/shiofaioth
Constructed languages can be seen as art projects, and they can implement and emphasize the values of anarchism.
Can you elaborate on this? Give an example?
I applaud your effort in translating that. Your translation does not perfectly match my original intentions, but it is close, and I guess there is supposed to be a subjective aspect to these things.
Anyway, I'll send you a link to our Discord.
Okay, call me curious. I took a stab at translating the poem according to the dictionary
Light The Darkness
Light is the paint
Darkness is like a canvas
It's the same for order and chaos
You spread the paint
In order to help, you must spread light
In order to be strong, you must spread order
What's wild, is that I copypasta'd this image into a local slop machine and it managed a (worse) translation.
(ai slop)
Light of darkness
--
Light to paint
Darkness on canvas
Similar to organization for chaos
You spread the paint
To conquer, to be kind
To construct, to organize
EDIT:
Re-reading this, I realized I didn't make it super clear that I was interested. I guess I hoped the effort expended to try a translation would signal intent? Anyhow, I'm keen.