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Conlangery 143: Music of Aeniith

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How to Translate a Song in English

This is one song that it would be really hard to make work in English as a song and not just totally change everything. The word order is all wrong because a realon is a verb initial language so you have verb subject and then the adjective following it. You can't really have a differing word in the adjective at the end of the phrase in English because it wouldn't be at theend of the phrase. It doesn't work in any other language that I'm aware of."

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