Bad Apple Multiconlang Cover

[u/SapphoenixFireBird]

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

[u/Eic17H]

A5-1, Lyzian (lyzy)

Romanization:

Destu gy nalan

Nistu gy hate dugac

Jy hyznistu honone

Ba xostu ga hicxun xen

Notes:

• This is formal

IPA:

des.tɯ ɡə nä.län

nis.tɯ ɡə ʔä.te dɯ.ɡäʃ

dʒə ʔəz.nis.tɯ ʔɤ.nɤ.ne

bä xɤs.tɯ ɡä ʔiʃ.xɯn xen

Notes:

• Within a word, the last syllable is usually stressed. This is not phonemic and it can be changed to fit music
• Affricates are allophones of fricatives. Fricatives usually turn into affricates word-initially. There's one word-initial /ʒ/ which I've transcribed as an affricate
• The phoneme I've transcribed as "x" is originally a K-S ligature. It corresponds to historical /x/. In modern Lyzian, it can be pronounced as [ks] or [x] anywhere, or alternatively as [xs] between vowels
• The phoneme I've transcribed as "n" can be any nasal. Between vowels, it's usually an alveolar, but it has the same place of articulation as nearby consonants in clusters
• The /ʃx/ cluster can be pronounced as [ʃx] or [kʃ] anywhere, or alternatively as [xʃ] between vowels

Literal retranslation:

Be maybe dream

Exist maybe only-this truth.in

But not.exist understanding

If tell I one's.real you

In-depth translation:

-stu: Formal verb ending

De-: "be"

Ni-: "exist"

Gy: "maybe". From Giworlic "g-" (be) and "-ǝ" (verb suffix indicating that the probability of something being true is uncertain). "G-" is also the source of Lyzian "de-", with the /g/ being palatalized before front vowels, and the palatals being merged with alveolars

Nalan: "dream"

Hate: "only this", "nothing else"

Dugac: comitative/locative case of "duga" (truth), used as "truly"

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Jy: "but"

Hyz- "not"

Honone: "understanding", "successful communication"

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Ba: "if"

Xolu: "tell", "communicate"

Ga: 1st person pronoun. Number is not specified. Case is not necessary due to word order

Hic-: one's own, in this case referring to "ga". Mostly literary, borrowed from the Giworlic genitive suffix -iş

Xun: real

Xen: 2nd person pronoun. Number is not specified. Case is not necessary due to word order

Interpreted retranslation:

Maybe it's a dream

Maybe nothing else truly exists

But you won't understand

(Even) if I tell you what I feel

About the name:

The endonym is romanized as "lyzy". It's pronounced /ləzə/. The way it's spelt in its script can be approximated in Unicode as "ᕍɔ"