mi se cmene zo lingona -- transcript and visual description

Title:
mi se cmene zo lingona
My nickname is Lingonberry

Visual description:
A tall woman with long, wavy red hair sits in an old, blue computer chair. She is wearing a purple V-neck with a blue flannel shirt left unbuttoned, a small black heart-shaped necklace, and large silver earrings shaped like spirals. Behind her is a large electric piano keyboard, and behind that, a small flat-screen television. She smiles and waves at the camera before beginning to speak in Lojban.

Transcript:

coi coi jbosoi .i mi'e la janbe
Hello hello Lojban soldiers! My name is Bell.

.i .uisai do zvati ca ku
I'm so happy you're here now!

.i le cabdei zo'u .ai mi skicu fi do fe su'o cinri be ra'a le mi nunji'e
Today, I'm going to tell you about something interesting from my life.

.i le prula'i jefsurdei zo'u mi ce la kunti noi zabna sai pendo mi cu klama la .aikiias. noi sfe'ero ke nilce zarci
This last weekend, me and Void, my good friend, went to IKEA, which is a Swedish furniture store.

.i mi'a klama la .aikiias. tezu'e po cpacu ti
We went to IKEA in order to obtain this

[Bell smiles and holds up a large shark plushie, which she squeezes affectionately]

noi serlaxi co'e
sharky boy

.i mi mutce sai nelci ti .i mutce loka ranti .i mutce loka xendo
I really like him! He's very soft, very sweet...

.i ti'e na mutce loka djica po citka do .i djica lo po'o ka se vrejai
I hear he doesn't really like eating people. He just wants to cuddle.

.i ku'i ti cu na ralju lo se casnu be mi ca ku
But he's not the main thing I wanted to talk about right now.

[Bell sets the plushie down on the ground nearby]

.i ku'i ca lenu mi'a zvati la .aikiias. (kei) mi viska
Anyhow, while we were at IKEA, I saw...

[Bell holds up a glass jar. The jar has a red label, and appears to be filled with dark red jam.]

ti
This!

.i simlu loka fadni
Seems innocuous enough.

.i mi djica po do ka'e viska
I want to make sure you can see.

[Bell holds up the jar to the camera. The text is partially in Swedish and partially in English. The Swedish text reads "EKOLOGISK SYLT LINGON." Underneath is written in English "Lingonberry fruit spread, organic."]

.i lingona rutpesxu
It's lingonberry jam...

co botpi
in a jar.

[Bell sits back in her chair and glances at the jar.]

.i fadni rutpesxu
Just regular jam.

.i ku'i bazi lonu mi viska ti kei mi morji su'o cinri be ra'a lo puzu se lifri be mi
But immediately after I saw it, I remembered an interesting story from earlier in my life.

.i ti zo'u
This thing...

[Bell puts the jar down off screen]

tu'e
Well, here goes.

.i ta'oru'e puzu ku mi tadni do'e lo balcu'e
So basically, a while ago I was a college student

.ije ca lenu mi tadni do'e le balcu'e kei mi tadni le ponbau
And while I was in college, I studied Japanese.

.ije do'e le ponbau nunctu mi penmi lo zabna sai pendo be mi bei me'e zo jisra
And in my Japanese class, I met a wonderful friend of mine whose name was Juice.

.i ku'i so'i le mi pendo pe le ponbau nunctu cu djica po klama le pongu'e
Anyhow, a bunch of my friends from Japanese class wanted to go to Japan

tezu'e tau lo ckule co'e
for a school thing.

.ije ku'i mi noi dinpindi zo'u na co'e
But as for me, who was poor at the time, well, I didn't.

.i ba'i bo mi stali le mergu'e je cu kurji ci mlatu pe la jisra
Instead, I stayed in America and took care of Juice's three cats.

.i la jisra cu curmi po mi xabju le jy kumyzda nei
Juice let me stay at her apartment over the summer

ca lenu jy cu zvati le pongu'e
while she was in Japan

.ije mi ca le crisa cu kurji ci mlatu
And I, for the summer, took care of three cats.

.i ku'i lei mlatu cu zabna .i mi mutce nelci lei mlatu
So, the cats were lovely, I really liked the cats.

.i ku'i ca lenu la jisra cu na zvati kei mi ta'e citka lo dembi
So, while Juice wasn't there, I ate a lot of beans.

.i mi ta'e citka lo dembi ki'u po mi nalre'ucti
I ate a lot of beans because I am vegetarian

je cu nitcu tau su'o lanbi
And I need some kind of protein.

.i ku'i mi ta'e citka lo dembi
Anyway, I ate beans a lot.

.i ca lo fadni djedi mi pu djica po citka lo dembi
One ordinary day, I wanted to have some beans

.ije mi kargau lo lante co dembi tezu'e po citka
And I opened a can of beans so that I could eat

.ije ba lonu mi citka su'o dembi pe le lante kei
And after I used some of the beans from the can

mi djica po punji lo drata lo vasru nei
I wanted to put the rest in a container

tezu'e loka fanta lonu lo dembi cu fusra
to prevent the beans from going bad.

.ije mi co'a sisku lo vasru
So I started looking for a container.

.i mi facki fi lo vasru .i lo vasru zo'u botpi .i lo botpi zo'u
I found a container. The container was a jar, and the jar...

[Bell picks up the jar again]

mutce simsa ti
Looked just like this!

.i lingona rutpesxu botpi
It was a lingonberry jam jar.

.i kunti .i la jisra ja'o cu pu citka ro le rutpesxu .ije kunti
It was empty. Juice, I assume, had eaten all the jam, so it was empty.

.i mi viska le botpi je cu pensi losi'o mi ka'e pilno ti tezu'e tau le dembi
I saw the jar and thought, well, I may as well use this for the beans.

.ije mi pensi no ji'i da ra'a la'e di'u
And I thought nothing of it.

.i mi punji le dembi le botpi je cu tolmo'i
I put the beans in the jar, and forgot about it.

.i le dembi cu zvati le djalekmi'i .ije roda cu xamgu
The beans were in the fridge, and everything was fine.

.i ku'i la jisra cu xruti fi la pongu'e .ije viska le botpi be ne'i le djalekmi'i
But then, Juice came back from Japan and saw the jar in the fridge

.ije jy cusku fi mi fe lu ma krinu tau le dembi .i do fenki
and she said to me something like "What's with the beans? You're crazy!"

.i ma da'i krinu po lo'e prenu cu punji ti ta .i cizra cizra sai
"Why would someone put this here? It's so strange!"

.i doi la janbe do cizra cizra prenu .i ma krinu (li'u)
"Bell, you really are a strange person. Why?"

.i mi na birti lodu'u ma krinu po la jisra cu se cizra
I'm not really sure why Juice found it so strange

.i ku'i mutce loka se cizra
but she definitely found it strange.

.ije ja'ebo la jisra cu jdice po xamgu fa po mi se cmene zo lingona
And as a result, Juice decided it would be good to call me Lingonberry

ra'a le lingona rutpesxu botpi ku li'a
because of the lingonberry jam jar, of course.

.ije ca ku mi ca'o se cmene zo lingona ki'u tau le lingona rutpesxu botpi
And now, to this day, I still get called Lingonberry, because of the lingonberry jam jar.

.i mi na ka'e ba'o se cmene zo lingona .i ja'o mi ze'e srana lo'e lingona ki'u la'e di'u
I can't get rid of the name... I think I'll always be associated with lingonberries because of this.

.i ja'o jai fanmo .i .a'osai do se zdile .i mi se zdile
Well, looks like that's all. I hope you found this fun, I know I did.

.i .a'osai mi za'ure'u zvati ti je cu kansa do
I really hope I'll be here with you again soon.

.i va'o da'i po do se cmene su'o cizra nei ko cusku do'e le notci co'e
If you happen to have a silly nickname, tell me about it in the comments!

.ije .a'osai mi viska do bazi ku .i co'o
And I hope I'll see you again soon! Bye!