tabgapci ("Carbon Monoxide") - LOJBAN SONG ft. la nonselcme

tabgapci ("Carbon Monoxide")
or "The Ballad of B.F. Skinner"
Special thanks to la nonselcme ractu for this awesome collaboration! Her channel is here:
/ @lanonselcmeractu88
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Download here: noiseandbells.bandcamp.com/tr...
Chords: pastebin.com/CeEUgs8v
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[VERSE A]
do mi sombo lo fusra je festi
ve'a lo jesni zu
.i lo tsiju cu fliba po kanro
renvi ja banro ca'o ku
.i mi cinmo po simsa lo smacu
pinfu se vasru ca
.i do curmi po taske ja xagji
tau lo tabgapci po'o .ua
[CHORUS A]
.i cortu jonai pluka .au
.i fanmo fa lo nu mi lifri li rau
.i xu pau nai mi pante ba
lo nu do sabji su'o da
[VERSE B]
.i mi bilga co katna lo jgena
be lo mi dzena bai
.i ba'o mipri lo fagri se cinmo
.ui fo lo xinmo .oi .oinai
[CHORUS B]
.i damba jonai randa .ei
.i mi se lanxe lonu slilu pamxei
.i .uanai noda mansa do
.i zukte ma po .e'i mo
fa ko
Dr. B.F. Skinner: [spoken]
If a child is really not getting much reinforcement out of life,
then a little parental or instructional approval would be enough to get the child going.
But that should be withdrawn!
You should break down the control exercised by another person,
But there's no freedom involved in either case.
He's not independent of the natural world:
He has already come under the control of the physical environment...
[CHORUS C]
.i cnemu jonai sfasa .oi
fi po mi dirba traji kenra do soi
.i do re mi re do re si
pu za’o zbasu .i do na se binxo mi
noi do frica ki
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*Note: This song uses the "jboponei" and "tcekitaujau" modifiers. More info on that here: mw.lojban.org/papri/ce_ki_tau...

[@HoukaiBG]

This is, to date, the most lyrical, free flowing lojban song I have heard(not that there are that many). I never realized how well the language can rhyme. Awesome job!

[@NoiseAndBells]

Wow, such a beautiful compliment! Thank you

[@HoukaiBG]

@@NoiseAndBells Unfortunately I am not versed in lojban(too different from ordinary language + no time). Does the last sentence translate to: Believe it or not, lojban has amusingly infinite rhyming potential?

[@NoiseAndBells]

@@HoukaiBG yes!

[@HTask]

This may be my favorite track yet (though it's close w/ "sruri fa lo tarci"). Please keep it up, your music rocks!

[@NoiseAndBells]

Thanks so much

[@llamallama1509]

I love your work! I gave up learning Lojban many years ago and was far from fluent even back then, how fluent are you in Lojban? Are these songs written carefully by looking things up in a Lojban dictionary, or can you write most of it based on knowledge?

[@NoiseAndBells]

Hi there! At this point I'm fluent in text and moderately fluent in spoken conversation. Also, my songs are mostly created from my own knowledge of the language, though I sometimes have to double-check place structure and such. In any case, I'm so glad you enjoy my songs and I hope you get back into lojban someday

[@passingbyweiboo]

great work

[@teilteilnehmer]

ni li pona mute a!! ike la mi sona ala e toki Losipan. taso kalama sina li pona kute! ".i do re mi re do re si" li epiku a!

[@05degrees]

“Do” here seems to be like G# in A=440Hz tuning. But still great!

[@wynnexed]

toki, jan toki pona sin!

[@ozakigamestudio]

toki pona li pona mute a! kalama musi ni li pona mute a!

[@HTask]

Also, beautiful job @la nonselcme ractu!

[@nonametherabbit8593]

ki'e sai

[@janmusi]

having almost no knowledge of lojban, but a very bad understanding of it, i tried to decompose the first line: do mi sombo lo fusra je festi you (x1) | me (x2) | plants (gismu) | the rot/decay and (metaphor) waste (x3) | sombo is described as: (x1) sows/plants (x2) [crop/plants] at/in (x3) . so _do_ is the planter _mi_ gets planted _lo fusra_ and _je festi_ are where they get planted

[@NoiseAndBells]

Very close! {lo fusra je festi} is a single argument made from two predicates -- {fusra} "decay" and {festi} "waste" -- connected by the logical "and" operator, {je}. So, {lo fusra je festi} is "something which is both decay AND waste".

[@janmusi]

@@NoiseAndBells lojban is very new to me, so yeah

[@brettwilliams1696]

melbi traji .i rinka po mi klaku ri'e .i ba'u cu'i no drata jboselsa'a cu zmadu fi po melbi .i zanfritcetce se'o po do jo'u la ractu cu kansa sanga .i mi prami ro lo re me do .i po kansa tinju'i cu se dusfri se'o .i ranji .au cai .i .ui'onmo tcetcetce .ui'i nai ki'e cai

[@friesgaming487]

Cool

[@HTask]

ti mulno daxygau edit: pe'a

[@Frszl]

What DAW do you use to create your music?

[@NoiseAndBells]

Logic Pro (appropriately enough) and occasionally FL Studio :)

[@Frszl]

@@NoiseAndBells ki’e!

[@that_orange_hat]

what are the chords to this?

[@NoiseAndBells]

Here you go! It's written specifically for tenor ukulele with low G, but I'm sure you could figure it out on guitar as well. Let me know if you have any trouble with any of the parts: pastebin.com/CeEUgs8v

[@that_orange_hat]

@@NoiseAndBells thank you! i play the ukulele, so this should be fun :)

[@that_orange_hat]

​@@NoiseAndBells if i use a standard ukulele how would the capo 3rd fret transfer to that?

[@NoiseAndBells]

@@that_orange_hat It's exactly the same on a standard uke- just capo the 3rd fret to play in C minor like the song :)

[@parrotparrot1948]

well, good song, but I can't understand it... perhaps I can understand it just like my other language in the future :v

[@wesleywilson5984]

coi janbe ui .i u'e do djuno fi lo gimrafrimna .i pe'i ju'o ru'e ri sidju do lonu ciska lo balvi jmina ke melbi selsa'a .i ra curmi lonu le fanmo karsnale'u co brivla cu cenba ki'u lonu rimni lo drata valsi .i mi roroi ke manci djica lodu'u ckaji lo sance be ra .i mi pu troci lonu pilno ra ca lo nu ciska lo mi selsa'a .i ku'i mi noroi famgau ra .i mi puzujeca jinvi lodu'u lo gimrafrimna .e lo jbini karsna cu banli sidju da'i lo ciska lonu selsa'a je pemci ciska to le jbini karsna ka'e se pilno fi lonu jmina lo zmadu slaka fau loka nitcu toi .i ta'onai puziku au sutsku lau'u do ki'u lonu facki djuno lo do se jinvi .i ui e'o einai tolju'i je ranji finti lo melbi zgike .i uisai iusai

[@NoiseAndBells]

coi coi xendo .iu .i .ie mi ja'a djuno fi lo gimrafrimna .i ca ku mi nu'o pilno gy mu'i lodu'u mi nelci losu'u lo ve rimni cu mapti lo fadni valsi .i ku'i plixau sai je'u za'a .i da'i da'i mi pilno gy tu'a le bavla'i zgike .ui .i ta'o .uisai mi gleki sai lodu'u do zvati gi'e tavla mi .i .a'osai do ca lifri lo zabna

[@wesleywilson5984]

@@NoiseAndBells au'u ki'e sai do .i mi gleki ji'a lonu tavla do

[@jambie]

Omfg KZbin's translate had a fucking mental breakdown over its inability to translate lojban

[@friesgaming487]

@@jambielol

[@a71official]

​@friesgaming487 mol