Help your conlang fluency (2)

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Ojjit klagti imant oss dass oss allhyt dē zelligē zeggti oss hirr. Sginlyk zʉll hi nu oss dē niwē klagē.
Once someone complained that we all said the same over here. Maybe he'll now complain again.

[finlay]

Fantute?
was it me?

[kusuri]

Nashílashi?
Räihi ihi?
Osnous?
Was it me?

[Bristel]

Inraibse mé?
Was it me?

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Wast ig dē?
Was it me?

[Matrix]

Ne fu me?
Was it me?

[jal]

A mi di tok dis?
Did I say that?


JAL

[finlay]

zipu ...
you ...

[jal]

zipu ...
you ... :|

Wo man?
Who?


JAL

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

zipu ...
you ...

Wo man?
Who?


JAL

Ji. Ji sgrifti gyn "Wast ig dē?". Ji sgrifti a lykigē, mar nikkt dē zelligē.
You. You didn't write "Was it me?". You wrote something similar, but not the same.

[Chagen]

...Ac jva dvayīm laudhitha?
what right.now nonsense-DAT be.here-IMPERF-3S
...What the hell is going on right now?

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Wi zegg "Wast ig dē?".
We're saying "Was it me?".

[ęzo]

...môzônûjtjah?
OBV-PST-be-SGV-EX
Was it me?

[KathTheDragon]

Kvâs mamé hásta?
Was it me?

[alynnidalar]

Oki! Nakalun! On idar ahu!
_{okay FEM-confess 3SG.INAN PST 1SG.FEM}
Okay! I confess! It was me!

[jal]

You. You didn't write "Was it me?". You wrote something similar, but not the same.

Ye, ova di pwoblem a it in me, de Sajiwan, man tok se "Was it me?". So mi mos parafres. Cu man me tok se "It ja mi?" o "A mi it ja?", ova dis swel me ondastan "Was I there?". Gut odatok oldataym won mek parafres.
Yes, but the problem is that it's not possible, in Sajiwan, to say "Was it me?". So I had to paraphrase. Of course one can say "It ja mi?" or "A mi it ja?", but that could also mean "Was I there?". Good translation often needs paraphrasing.


JAL

[finlay]

Mine actually says "did I write say?" but that would sound silly in English. First rule of good translation is that you shouldn't always translate word-for-word.

[Nortaneous]

Dy3 dae6 da3 ga6?
it say.S.TOT 1S Q
[dzɨ̀ ɺæ̌e̯ dà ŋǎ]
Was it me?

[jal]

Mine actually says "did I say?" but that would sound silly in English. First rule of good translation is that you shouldn't always translate word-for-word.

Rom i koko! Ova wen mi tok se "A mi di tok dis", olmos tokl sem fi "did I say", yu tok "yu...", an Dē Graut Bʉr plen yu tok "yu..." kos mi tok "did I say that" steda "was it me". Dis taym mi a konfon! Mi go les odatok "Was it me?", ova wen sem taym ray Sajiwan sem "did I say that"? Dis ja yu won it?
Exactly*! But when I said "A mi di tok dis", almost totally the same as your "dis I say", you said "you...", and DGB explained you said "you..." because I said "did I say that" instead of "was it me". I'm confused now. Should I have translated [from Sajiwan in English] "Was it me?", but at the same time have written the Sajiwan equivalent of "did I say that"? Is that what you wanted?

*"Rom i kok" means "rum and coconut [juice]", which refers to "koko rom", Sajiwan's national drink. The full expression is "Dis a twu sem rom i koko!", "that's true like rum and coconut juice".


JAL

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Oss ji haptē dē gitút kynē dē minnig klaggings zyt giassit. Andriglyk iss kussē klaggē blanig enn heppt ji oss ferrgikynt oss túē dē, dʉs dy ji túti wast sginlyk nikkt hilliglyk sliggt. Enn dē vúg zeggingsgillighyts oss dy dē nitzytighyt ojjit biklaggt virti.
If you had done so there might have been less complaints. On the other hand, being able to complain is important and you made it possible for us to do so, so what you did maybe wasn't that bad. And it adds "saying differences"*, whose absence was once complained about.

*Zeggingsgillighyts turned out to be awfully hard to translate.

[finlay]

No, zipu means plural you. Maybe that time it was a bad translation. I kind of missed what he meant by that, it was more meant to be don't y'all go making fun of me now, or so, but I haven't had easy access to my dictionary recently so I've been just using the few words I remember.

[hwhatting]

To fún egun?
That-N.SG.NOM be-PAST.NONACT.1SG PRON.1SG.NOM
Was it me?

[Foolster41]

ka |adanksais datosa chiesa, giletaka
ka |a-danksais da-tosa chi-esa, giletaka
truth not-point SUBJ-2 OBJ-1 teacher
Surely you don’t mean me, teacher

Eh,,,, kikals datosa?
Eh.... ki-kal-s da-tosa?
Eh ques-past-V OBJ-2
Eh, was it me? >_> <_< ^_^

[Haplogy]

Сырэхыб аш Турцыў. Фарок вая.
Syre-hyb ash Turz-yw. Far-ok vaya.
[sɨreˈɦɨb ɑʃ ˈturt͡sɨw. fɑˈrɔk ˈvɑjɑ]
drink-1.3 tea Turkey-ᴏʀɢ | good-3.ᴀʙs 1.ᴅᴀᴛ

I'm drinking Turkish tea. I like it.

[CatDoom]

Ẓehuhûtīčerevu dēḍax? Pîgìbu be kafu bûtičē, šî ṭì'u bûtičē xe.
ẓeh-uh-ûtīčere-vu d-ēḍax-Ø? p-îgì-bu be kaf-u b-ûtičē, ši ṭì-'u b-ûtičē xe.
[ʐɛɦuɦṳːt̪iːtʃɛɾɛvu d̪ɛːɖaxʰ || pi̤ːgi̤bu bɛ kafu bṳːt̪itʃɛː | ʃi̤ː ʈi̤ʔu bṳːt̪itʃɛː xʰɛ]
VII-CAUS-be.turkish-V Q-VII-NOM || I-see/past-V I.sg.NOM coffee-ACC V-be.turkish, but tea-ACC V-be.turkish NEG

What makes it Turkish? I've seen Turkish coffee, but not Turkish tea.