Translation of incoming Sherall text:

About Autumn[1]
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Autumn is a bear who takes ill animals and aged animals and juvenile 
animals.

Autumn is the rock, we shall be living off it[2].

Autumn hunts mercilessly[3], a hawk's beak and talon.

But the children play all around the world[4].  
They make us remember the end of the winter.  
Right now we dance [5] because the sun[6] sustains us.

Flowering plants grow and hide our grave[7].

[1] Lit. "stormy season"
[2] The glossary would also have allowed "next to it", but that would
    have been a pretty bland metaphor, right?
[3] Lit. "hunts, with negative empathy,...".  I assumed this was an
    accidental translation of a vocabulary gloss "to hunt (with 
    negative emphasis)".  Wondering what negative connotations would
    befit hunting most, I came up with "merciless" (since Oro Mpaa 
    doesn't just have a grammatical tag designating negative context).
[4] Lit. "about the planet"
[5] Lit. "the very the point_in_time is we_dance" -- WTF?
[6] Lit. "the star"
[7] Lit. "final place_of_residence".  This could also have meant 
    "retirement home", but I guess the people of Tao Ttoua don't
    have those.  =P



Translation of outgoing Oro Mpaa text:

About autumn[1].
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Autumn is a bear who claims sick, aged and juvenile animals.

Autumn is a rock on which plants grow, which will be our food [2].

Autumn hunts mercilessly[3], as the beak and talons of a hawk.

But in the whole world, the children play.
They make us remember[4] the end of winter[5].
At this moment, we dance, for the sun gives us life [6].

Flowering plants grow, and hide our graves.

[1] Lit. "the season that witnesses falling leaves".  Something
    hard to imagine for a jungle dweller.
[2] The orginal has two independent clauses, but it doesn't make 
    sense that way.  "Autumn is the rock" has no defined meaning.
    The relative construction seems more sensible.  I had a hard
    time circumscribing "off of which we shall be living", too.
[3] Lit. "holding the whip high", idiomatic.
[4] Lit. "dig up witnessing", idiomatic.
[5] Lit. "the cold season"
[6] How else to circumscribe "the sun sustains us"?