thank you for this contribution. Unfortunately wikisource is never a reliable source to check whether a text is public domain.
We only accept those texts that have the actual scan included. Now I checked on this link you gave me, I don't speak enough Romanian, so maybe I missed the link to the scan, but (after spending an hour or so) I found an old version online on archive of this poem !
here is the book scan:
https://archive.org/details/VersurisiProza
here the page where it's clearly stated that it was published before 1923:
https://ia802808.us.archive.org/21/items/VersurisiProza/CR-XIX-I-96_0010.jpg
and here the poem over 3 pages:
https://ia802808.us.archive.org/21/items/VersurisiProza/CR-XIX-I-96_0041.jpg
https://ia802808.us.archive.org/21/items/VersurisiProza/CR-XIX-I-96_0042.jpg
https://ia902808.us.archive.org/21/items/VersurisiProza/CR-XIX-I-96_0043.jpg
So this is acceptable, with a few corrections. I found 4 significant deviations from the original text in your recording. So you can see that wikisource is not very reliable for the accurate scanned text
I didn't count the numerous different spellings as I thought it's probably only an old spelling but the word is the same, but the 4 sentences seem to me to be too different to ignore.
So could you correct these please:
>
at 0:31: “Pleacă-repede călare Să găsească pe bărbat” – you say: “Pleacă-n grabă ca să vadă Dacă e adevărat.” –
>
at 1:05: “Și, cu vorbe scurte Intră lordul John in curte“ – you say: “Și, ochindu-l bine, Lordul drept spre dânsul vine”
>
at 1:43: “Și ‘n orbite ochii-I ard.” – you say: “Simte palmele că-i ard,”
>
at 2:13: “Spune, ce mai vrei cu mine ?” – you say: “Auzi tu, cu ce gând vine!“
>
at 2:24-2:26: the pause here seems a bit long to me, anything over 1.5 seconds feels long to a listener. I would probably cut this a bit
Thank you
As for your other two texts, I'm very sorry, again, I didn't find a link to the scanned source in your wikisource link, and I checked a bit on archive.org, but couldn't find any other version of the poem either. So unless you find a PD source, we cannot accept those two.
Best thing is always to search on archive, where you see the date printed in the actual book. Gutenberg is also a reliable source, but unfortunately they only have 2 Romanian books there so far.
If in doubt, please post your link here, before you record, then we can check and you won't have invested time for nothing.
Sonia
I'll mark it PL notes for the moment, until we hear back from the reader.
Thank you for thinking about this project though. Sorry it couldn't be included.
