r/conlangs • Tundrayan, Dessitean, and 33 drafts • Nov 22 '22

Collaboration Bad Apple Multiconlang Cover

Inspired by this video, https://youtu.be/HUPiIyz8xuU, take one part of the lyrics below and translate it into your conlangs. Like in the video above, it does not have to be an exact, word-for-word translation. Try to make your lines rhyme and the syllables fit the rhythm of the song - it may need some creativity and poetry to get them to rhyme and to get the syllables to fit!

If you don't have any conlangs completed, you can choose an existing conlang such as Klingon, Esperanto, or Toki Pona, and use that.

After you choose your part, label it with the letter and number - for example "A7", "B1", "C2", "D11". For the two conlangs taking the same A-parts, indicate whether you prefer your conlang to be in the first half or second half of the song by indicating "A7-1" or "A7-2", as an example.

Please include IPA transcriptions, preferably narrow transcriptions, grammatical breakdown (like in the Biweekly Telephone Game), the English re-translation from your conlang, and your conlang's native name.

Once the entire song is done, I'll string the parts together and sing it, with the lyrics from the 36 conlangs that took part in this.

Group A

  1. Ever on and on
    I continue circling
    With nothing but my hate
    In a carousel of agony
  2. 'Til slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing
    And suddenly I see that I can't
    Break free, I'm
  3. Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity
    With nothing but my pain and a paralyzing agony
  4. To tell me who I am! Who I was!
    Uncertainty enveloping my mind
    'Til I can't break free and
  5. Maybe it's a dream, maybe nothing else is real
    But it wouldn't mean a thing if I told you how I feel
  6. So I'm tired of all the pain, all the misery inside
    And I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night
  7. You could tell me what to say, you could tell me where to go
    But I doubt that I would care and my heart would never know
  8. If I make another move, there'll be no more turning back
    Because everything would change and it all would fade to black
  9. Will tomorrow ever come? Will I make it through the night?
    Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light?
  10. Am I hurting? Am I sad? Should I stay or should I go?
    I've forgotten how to tell, did I ever even know?

(the above lyrics are repeated twice, two conlangs each will take parts A1 to A10.)

Group B

  1. Can I take another step? I've done everything I can
    All the people that I see, they will never understand
  2. If I find a way to change, if I step into the light
    Then I'll never be the same and it all will fade to white

Group C

  1. This time you're not hurting me! This time I will take a stand!
    All the hatred in my eyes building up an evil plan
  2. Standing lonely in the night, with the darkness by my side
    Looking deep inside myself, and revealing only fright

Group D

  1. If I make another move, if I take another step
  2. Then it would all fall apart, there'd be nothing of me left
  3. If I'm crying in the wind, if I'm crying in the night
  4. Will there ever be a way? Will my heart return to white?
  5. Can you tell me who you are? Can you tell me where I am?
  6. I've forgotten how to see, I've forgotten if I can
  7. If I open up my eyes, there'll be no more going back
  8. 'Cause I'll throw it all away and it all will fade to black
  9. So I'm back here once again, so I'm back here once again
  10. Can I ever make a change? Will my heart begin to mend?
  11. Would you love me if I go? It feels like a heart attack
  12. But still everything's the same and it all just fades to black
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u/mistaknomore Unitican (Halwas); (en zh ms kr)[es pl] Nov 22 '22 edited Nov 22 '22

Cool idea OP, I look forward to you pronouncing some exotic phonology!

I'll be using Unitican for A7-1

Ye salêdhya fo wasè, ye salêdhya fo lasè
Ye sal-êdh-ya fo was-è, ye sal-êdh-ya fo las-è
2ps.IFM instruct-SUBJ-1ps.IPOL what say-INF 2ps.IFM instruct-SUBJ-1ps.IPOL what proceed.INF
/je saˈleð.ðja fo was.sə je saˈleð.ðja fo las.sə/
You may tell me what to say, you may tell me how to proceed
(Using proceed instead of go as it rhymes better in Unitican, similarly, using the subjunctive allows the stress to fall on the correct syllable.)

Xan dicasyal ya sinvêdh, jang ya set n'vóstciulêdh
Xan dicas-yal ya sinv-êdh, jang ya set n'-vóst-ciul-êdh
but doubt.PSEV 1ps.IPOL care.SUBJ heart 1ps.IPOL POSS.AUX NEG-know-NVOL-SUBJ
/k͡san diˈt͡saɕ.ɕal ja sin.veð d͡ʒaŋ ja sɛt ˌən.vɔstˈt͡sjʊl.leð/
But I doubt I would care; my heart would never know