From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Dec 07 1996 - 17:26:33 EST
By the way, if anybody wants to refer to the original poem or its
translations in German and French, look at:
http://www.math.luc.edu/~vande/jabberwocky.html
The first stanza was translated like this in French:
Le Jaseroque
Il brilgue: les t™ves lubricilleux
Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave,
Enm”mŽs sont les gougebosqueux,
Et le m™merade horsgrave.
In German the first stanza was translated like this:
Der Jammerwoch
Es brillig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-mŸmsige Burggoven
Die mohmen RŠth' ausgraben
Personally, I would have done the German differently - e.g. I prefer "Es
brilligte" to "Es brillig war", but I didn't do any of these translations.
Now back to Greek. So far I have:
HN BRILLIG, KAI hAI TOFAI SLIQAI
EGIRSAN KAI GIMPLESAN EN TW OUEIMPW
hAI MPOROGROFAI MIMSIGAI HN
No, I'm certain that isn't right...I'm in over my head again...help!
Jonathan
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