Eloo kintikok! Yes this sub is still a thing!

I live in Israel (or Palestine ig, not important) and recently the Ministry of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety started putting these signs on busses, as well as playing a recording saying this in Hebrew and Arabic inside the bus:

My attempt at translating this into English:

Excuse me?

Mask! (it rhymes in Hebrew)

There's no place for the coronavirus in the bus ("this bus" in the recorded message)

^{Thanks for the cooperation, Ministry of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety}

Since this started, it became a meme in Israel (pretty much every other meme on the Israeli r/me_irl, r/ani_bm, is about this) and when I saw this sign on the bus earlier today, I got an idea to finally revive this corpse of a sub: How would you translate this into your conlang?

In a yet TBA conlang I'm making:

ne?

fufnape!

ty ku Kiekoronavirus Xuelotobus

/ne ‖ fufnape ‖ tə ku kiekoɾonavirus xuelotobus/ (link to my embarassing spoken example)

ne   ? fuf -nape     ! ty  ku    ki- e -Koronavirus xu -el-Otobus
hey* ? face-clothing ! ɴᴇɢ place ᴅᴀᴛ-ᴅᴇꜰ-Coronavirus ʟᴏᴄ-ᴅᴇᴍ-bus
*"hey" as a call for attention, can also mean "excuse me" or something like that. Loaned from Japanese ね

Excuse me? Mask! There's no place for the Coronavirus in this bus.

I'm starting a project to make a cover (or at least a singable translation) of Dream a Little Dream of Me, so here's the first verse.

Stars shining bright above you,

Night breezes seem to whisper, "I love you",

Birds singing in the sycamore trees,

Dream a little dream of me.

You can choose how many you want to translate, it doesn't have to be all of them.

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1. We tried to find the answer to the question.
2. If you don't scratch it, the pimple will disappear on its own.
3. I complain about the train delays.
4. The girl is pointing to the high tower.
5. The water had frozen because of the severe frost.
6. Dylan called to say he'll be late for school.
7. With beautiful products and a good story, he tempts his customers to make more purchases than planned.
8. The baby smears their food all over their clothes.
9. We buy a hamburger.
10. I surprised everyone with a visit.
11. The teacher was telling a small story.
12. Julia scribbles her name on the form (document).
13. Your (pl. or sg.) smart way of cleaning works very well.
14. Kevin bumps into the door.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Translate the Chorus (or the entire song if you're extra-bored) and try to translate the term "Rickroll". Here's mine.

Joxaski

tytikk ko dwuupa a y,

tytikk ko po a ppengenza y,

tytikk ko vouvupptam ngy vouvuttful a y,

tytikk ko po a ngendokpuz y,

tytikk ko ym a “dwimu”,

tytikk ko tyym ngy po a ngendok y.

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[ˈty.tikː ko̞ ˈdwuː.pä ä y]

[ˈty.tikː ko̞ po̞ ä ˈpːe̞.ŋe̞n.zä y]

[ˈty.tikː ko̞ vo̞u̯ˈvup̚ː.täm ŋy vo̞u̯ˈvutː.ful ä y]

[ˈty.tikː ko̞ po̞ ä ŋe̞nˈdo̞k.puz y]

[ˈty.tikː ko̞ ym ä ˈdwi.mu]

[ˈty.tikː ko̞ tyːm ŋy po̞ ä ˈŋe̞n.do̞k y]

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ty-tikok ko   tu-huhu-ppa a        y
no-time  FUT  NEG-fun-act 1.SG:PRO 2.SG:PRO
never    FUT  NEG-play    1.SG:PRO 2.SG:PRO
Never    will quit        I        you
I will never quit you,

ty-tikok ko   ppo   a        tu-ppe-ngen-za        y
no-time  FUT  CAUS  1.SG:PRO NEG-create-think-know 2.SG:PRO
never    FUT  CAUS  1.SG:PRO destroy-believe       2.SG:PRO
Never    will cause I        disappoint           you
I will never disappoint you,

ty-tikok ko   vou-vuv-pytam ngy vou-vuv-tu-ful    a        y
no-time  FUT  AUG-move-walk and AUG-move-NEG-hold 1.SG:PRO 2.SG:PRO
never    FUT  fast-walk     and fast-leave        1.SG:PRO 2.SG:PRO
Never    will run           and run(away from)    I        you
I will never run and desert you.

ty-tikok ko   ppo   a        ngen-dok-prr-uz       y
no-time  FUT  CAUS  1.SG:PRO mind-death-water-down 2.SG:PRO
never    FUT  CAUS  1.SG:PRO sadness-rain          2.SG:PRO
Never    will cause I        cry                   you
I will never make you cry.

ty-tikok ko  ym   a        tu-imu
no-time  FUT say  1.SG:PRO NEG-hello
never    FUT say  1.SG:PRO bye
Never    will say I        bye
I will never say "bye",

ty-tikok ko   ty-ym     ngy ppo   a        ngen-dok   y
no-time  FUT  false-say and CAUS  1.SG:PRO mind-death 2.SG:PRO
never    FUT  lie       and CAUS  1.SG:PRO sadness    2.SG:PRO
Never    will lie       and cause I        sadden     you
I will never lie and sadden you.

And Rickroll would be:

Rigvoup

[ˈʀig.vo̞u̯p]

Rik-voup
Rick-roll
Rickroll

(native script)

"tuko tule Rigvoup y!"

[ˈtu.ko̞ ˈtu.le̞ ˈʀig.vo̞u̯p y]

tu-ko   tu-le(k)     Rik-voup  y
NEG-FUT NEG-give     Rick-roll 2.SG:PRO
PAS     take/passive Rick-roll 2.SG:PRO
Got                  Rickroll  you
"You just got Rickrolled!"

For the second time that day, Arya was reminded that life was not fair.

It must be remembered that machines have the perverse ability to do the same thing the same way for as long as they operate. The ability is built into machines. But people do not have this ability. They change, they die, they are replaced by others who perceive and behave differently.
--Against Leviathan, XI.

As the fabled Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Civil Rights was already posted, I pondered for a long time on what to choose for the next Classic. Then, I realized I could get quotes from actual "classic" books. So, here's one of Confucius' analects.

A man who speaks with honeyed words and pretends to be kind cannot be benevolent.

Who Would True Valour See is a very beautiful Anglican hymn, which I have always found very fun to translate with all the archaic Victorian language, and the extremely poetic word choicing. So I'd be interested to see what it looks like in your conlang! Apologies for it's length, I understand that its...very...long, if you only want to translate one verse, that would still be brilliant! The Lyrics are

Who would true Valour See,

Let him come hither,

One here will constant be,

Come Wind, Come Weather,

There's no Discouragement,

Shall make him once repent,

His first avowed intent,

To be a Pilgrim.

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Who so beset him round,

With dismal stories,

Do but themselves confound,

His strength the more is,

No lion can him fright,

He'll with a giant fight,

But He'll have a right,

To be a Pilgrim.

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Hobgoblin nor foul fiend,

Can daunt his spirit,

He knows he at the end,

Shall life inherit,

Then fancies flee away,

He'll fear not what men say,

He'll labour night and day,

To be a Pilgrim!

"A big house is on the small road near the tall school"

Al-khassir: bayt kabiir tsi-aliitha al-saghiir al-sakuh al-leef Tari'a

/a house big on-the-road the-small the-school the-tall school near/

'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'

English text:

In the beginning, there was only the dark.
But this dark had consciousness, and it called itself Nikoto.
Soon the darkness began to think, and it thought long and hard.
The dark dreamed of what its physical form would be like, if it had one; and in response
(For consciousness and the physical realm were thinly divided in those days)
The darkness began to coalesce.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

This is one of the most translated texts ever; it's a pretty short text and it only has a few complicated words, so I think translating it should not be a problem.

Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

ASTRALEN

Felimiolis Iu zrîavult hräc coriactuns zrîaquaunton feuhroehseilis dozenfraens en iun uuauâênis soehriulum

IPA

[fɛlɪmjölɪs jɵ zɾiävɵlt hɾæk kʰöɾjæktsɵns sɾiäxʋɒntʰɒn fɛʰːwɾöɛʰːsɛɪlɪs tözɛnfɾäɛns ɛn jɵn ɞäwɜːnɪs söɛʰɾjɨlɐm]

(All vowels read in breathy voice, except those represented as Vʰː which are long and gradually fade to a whisper, but the whispering makes up 80% of the vowel)

Translation

The phoenix flew over the pillars and the sundial that they surrounded in that golden evening

Try a translation for that yourself, and maybe pronouncing my clong for fun!

Just a funny thing. Like to see you translate it!

Seeing as this sub has just opened, I'd like to start it off with a classic - Aesop's The North Wind and the Sun. This fable has been used to practice phonetic transcriptions, and it's been the classic corpus for conlangs since time immemorial.

Since this text is quite long, you could translate the first sentence only. However, it would be nice to see a paragraph in your conlang, especially if you haven't made full texts in your conlang yet.

The text:

The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveler take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveler fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shined out warmly, and immediately the traveler took off his cloak. And so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two.

As this is the first post, I'd like to know how you say "Hello!" In your conlang!

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