You Didn't Go To School Today
I asked ChatGPT to translate another poem I wrote in college.
Tldr, a girl I liked, back in my childhood in Vietnam, was absent from school one day and I didn't walk home with me like usual.
ChatGPT: You didn’t go to school today, Even butterflies lose their playful way. Beneath the sun, the fields in silent lay, Wild hills breathe solitude, in quiet sway.
A solitary dragonfly dances alone, A boat unmoored, quietly moans. Fish near river edge, in playful tone, An old bridge, moss overgrown.
Countless days, by school bells framed, Yet today, silence, unclaimed. Your absence like clouds cover the sky, A silent pathway, where sunbeams used to lie.
Original: Mày không đi học hôm nay Buồn bươm bướm cũng không bay đường về Trưa trời nắng trải đồng quê Đồi hoang gió lặng con đê trở buồn Dập diều một cánh chuồn chuồn Chiếc ghe ai thả đang buôn giữa giòng Gần bờ cá lội long tong Cầu tre gỗ mục rêu phong phủ đầy Bao ngày tan học qua đây Hôm nay vắng bóng như mây phủ dầy
Unfortunately, we weren't a match. I loved her, but she's was very superficial. It was the uncertainty of our relationship that made me write it.
In The Mid of Night
I got ChatGPT to translate a poem I wrote in college.
ChatGPT Translation:
Tonight, I'll compose verses in your name,
Under a faint moon, where shadows play their game.
While you rest, enveloped in dreams' gentle hold,
Our love lies between what's real and stories told.
Tonight, I'll write for you in the endless deep,
Where wine's warmth and passions quietly seep.
In the haze of smoke, your essence seems to fade,
Between life's certainties and the illusions we've made.
OG:
Anh sẽ viết cho em một vần thơ
Giữa đêm nay vắng vẻ dưới trăng mờ
Đêm em ngủ êm đềm trên gối mộng
Khuya cuộc tình nữa thực lại nữa mơ
Anh sẽ viết cho em trong mênh mông
Giữa đêm nay hơi ấm rượu men nồng
Đêm khói thuốc bóng em bay mờ ảo
Khuya cuộc đời nữa có nữa lại không
Thank you, but not that. It was a language where they didn't start with any preconception, basically just people speaking to each other in their language and what comes out is the new conlang. I think it has a Japanese speaker in the group
Searching for a conlang
A few years ago I came across a conlang that was created by people speaking different languages together. I think the goal was to create a more "natural" company. Anyone know what it could be?
Bathroom Stall
Let's get lost in a bathroom stall With your back against the wall Hands around me you will not fall Screaming out "I want it all"
Better yet in a public pool I'll sing you your birthday song Let them watch and let them drool Forget the world we'll get it on