Re: CONLANG: Write-only language, part 2

[Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>]

Spake thus Forest Sprite:

>Worse writing (though less clause-heavy) from the Washington Post, Metro
>section, Dec. 6th:
>
>"The head of a Northeast Washington charter school at the center of a
>controversy over a tussle with a reporter portrayed herself as having a
>passion for molding young blacks and being unafraid of confrontations with
>institutions that she sees standing in her way."

In Lojban:

lo ralju belo'i xe nupre ckule nela nortist. .uacint,n. be'o
poi se nunpro folenu jairda'a belo ternuzba cu skuski vo'a foleka
xaurga'i loi citno xekre'a kei jo'u leka nalte'a lenu fapro
loi truci'e poi pe'idai jai zunti tu'a ry.

Interesting to note are the particles "be'o", "kei" and "cu" that delimit the
scope of phrases and enable the relative clause to attach to the correct
argument.

lo    ralju   belo'i        xe         nupre  ckule         nela
The principal of-the operators-of-the promise school associated-with-the

 nortist.  .uacint,n. be'o
North-east Washington  ,

poi         se nunpro                folenu        jairda'a    belo
that |is-opposing-in-an-event| about-the-event-of grasp-fight with-the

 ternuzba       cu skuski     vo'a         foleka
news-source express-describe herself as-having-the-quality-of

 xaurga'i       loi     citno    xekre'a   kei
good-change the-mass-of young black-person  ,

      jo'u         leka             nalte'a           lenu      fapro
in-common-with the-quality-of other-than-afraid-of the-event-of opposing

    loi        truci'e       poi           pe'idai
the-mass-of governing-system that evidential:opinion-of-another

   jai       zunti              tu'a          ry.
abstract interferes-with something-to-do-with her