"This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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"This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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I really like this sentence from the April speedlanging thread which was started by GoshDiggityDangit, but unfortunately I lack the motivation to do a speedlanging challenge right now. Therefore, and also because there haven't been many translation challenges recently, I have decided to extract the sentence into the translation board.

:eng: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."
Wipe the glass. This is the usual way to start, even in the days, day and night, only a happy one.
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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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:con: Yélian

Vat bit sao vinquasé. Reyas vit íaverei, èpa sat aupreyaut.
[vɐ‿bɨt saʊ̯ vɨŋkɐˈseː | ˈɾeːʃɐs vɨt ˈɪ̯aːʋəɾɛɪ̯, ˈɛpɐ sat aʊ̯pˈɾeːʃaʊ̯t]
DEM COP.3SG.ANIM 2SG.POSS life | do-JUS.2SG REL love{thing}-2SG, and 2SG.OBL often-do-JUS.INV.3SG.INAN
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.

:con: Caelian

Dyot fonrec Zabye byäis. Zan javadowyer risusing, pëc darisusing.
[dʲɔt βɔnˈrɛç zaˈbʲɛ bʲæɪ̯ʃ | zan javadɔˈʋɛɾ riʒuˈʒiŋ, pʰəç dariʒuˈʒiŋ]
DEM.MASC.NOM life.NOM 2SG.GEN COP.3SG>3SG | 2SG.NOM love.PL.ESS do.2SG>3PL, and HAB-do.2SG>3PL
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.

:con: Utseech

Deehia is dech levech. Bals was liebs du, ûd ofen ballas.
[ˈdeːhiɐ̯ ɪs dɛç ˈɫɛvɛç | baɫs was liə̯bs du, ʊ˞d ˈɔfən ˈbalas]
DEM.PROX.MASC COP.3SG 2SG.GEN life | do-EMPH REL love-2SG 2SG.NOM, and often do=3SG.INDEF
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.

:con: Bath'aso (Orkish)

Zhuts pħezhdke. E jakpambzko tozokz-tozokz.
[ʐut͡s ˈpˤɛʐdkɛ | ɛ ˈjɑkpɑmbzkʌ ˈtʌzɔkz̥ˌtʌzɔkz̥]
CONT life-2SG.GEN | IMP event-loving=2SG.GEN do=2SG.ERG=do=2SG.ERG
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.

:con: Paatherye (Elvish)

Assuming that it's a woman who is spoken to.

Thēs ēs dey phāsur. Kāsekes nayāmas tha, ewu trayēpas kāseme.
[tʰeːs eːs ðei̯ pʰaːsuɾ | kaːˈsekes naˈjaːmas tʰa, ˈe.u tɾaˈjeːpas ˈkaːseme]
DEM.PROX.MASC.NOM COP.3SG.MASC 2SG.GEN>NOM.MASC life.NOM | do.IMP.2SG.FEM love.OPT.2SG REL.INAN.FEM.NOM, and AUX.HAB.OPT.2SG do.INF
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.
Wipe the glass. This is the usual way to start, even in the days, day and night, only a happy one.
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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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:con: griushkoent (without script here)

daei haut. is arar vazh skuya.
/'dei 'haut. 'is 'arar vaʒ 'skuja/
T3-POSS-A lifetale. A-PL V-IMP-V-IMP attribution like-V
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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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:con: Alál

Azǔrı luǔr. Mırùtùmkı·rùaı. Amùtùsuḳàma.
[ɐ'ʃori 'ɬfowr mɪ'rotomgɪˌrohɪ ɐ'motozʊˌɴɑm(ɐ)]
za<ù>r̀-í lu<uù-ú>ŕ mrı<ù-tù>m+k+rı<u>r̀-ı-a ma<ù-tù>s-u-ḳàm-a
receive<2>-STAT life<2-PAT>. please<2-2>+purpose+act<DEO>-DEO-VOL.ACT. do.so<2-2>-DEO-FREQ-VOL.ACT.
"Here stands your life. Do what pleases you. Do so often."

(Oh. I seem to have stumbled upon a way to make habitual reflexive verbs via object incorporation. How many years have I worked on this language and never realized this made perfect sense? Neat. Still gotta do non-habitual reflexives periphrastically, but this is nice to have. Also, first in-translation use of Zar̀í "to stand before you, here is, voilà", related to Zar̀à "to receive", ZAR̀3 "medial demonstrative", ZAR̀2 "casual/humble 1st person".)

Translation challenge: 5/100
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Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.

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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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wÊx»z̅»¾„ÐWwÊcwÊz»ÀËb
(you experiencing action giving smile yours, you having to very act like it...)
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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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:con: Rireinutire

siki tano vuisa yakavo: ta kakina virikavo sakina teñeka'· ita siki meyoro:
/ˈsiki ˈtɑno ˈvuisɑ ˈjɑkɑvo || tɑ ˈkɑkinɑ ˈviɹikɑvo ˈsɑkinɑ ˈteŋekɑʔ | ˈitɑ ˈsiki ˈmejoɹo/
siki ta-no vuisa ya-ka-vo || ta kaki-na viri-ka-vo saki-na teñe-ka-' | ita siki meyoro ||
this.NOM 2S-GEN life.NOM be-PRS-INFR || 2S.NOM what.REL-PTV love-PRS-INFR that-PTV do-PRS-IMP | and.then this.NOM often ||

This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.

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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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:con: Naguil

Lei ta aiveiren. Pe ennia armena, kue pe meon ennia.
/'lɛːi ta‿aj'vɛːirən. 'pʰɛː ɛn'jaː‿ar'mɛːna, 'kʰwɛː 'pʰɛː 'mɛːɔn ɛn'jaː/

Lei-Ø ta-Ø ai-veir-en. Pe-Ø en-nia ar-men-a, kue pe-Ø me-on en-nia.
This-LOC be-COP.PRS 2SG-life-NOM. Do-IMP 3SG.N-what 2SG-love-PRS, also do-IMP much-TMP 3SG.N-what.
This/Here is your life. Do that you love, also do often that.
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Re: "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often."

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:con: Yorkish
Thet is thi lief. Giar hwat tha neutest, oʒ giar at oft.
/θɛt ɪs θə ləif | car ʍat θə ɲut(ə)s(t) ɔ car ət ɔft/
DEM.PROX be.PRS.3 2SG.OBL life | do what 2SG enjoy-PRS.2SG and do 3NSG often
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.
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