Re: Translation Relay Update
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 1999, 19:35 |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
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> Sally
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> What are the names of some conlang clothes?
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Well, fashionable gentlemen in town wear a "trays" or suit: a kind of
short "tunecca" (shirt) shoved into "brech" (trews) with a "pals" (cloak)
or "palsarmus" (cloak with arms). Imported "pleid" from Scotland are
popular amongst certain rebellious youths. At Court, the Judge sports a
"toga dubba" (black toga), the defense a "toga keru" (blue), the
prosecution a "toga rudda" (red) and the jurors "toga vidda" (white).
Kings and queens in old stories had fancier duds: "sona d'arew blanch", a
belt of white bronze; "pals de mhareteren dhubh", a cloak of black sable;
"anouls d'or perry guthelych", a ring of gold round the neck; "camessa",
fine quality tunic; "combrech", arm rings; "calelles", shoes; "armilles",
bracelets; "oses", hosen; "camessa de lains berrech", fine and soft wool
tunic; "pals de pel le arth", bear skin cape; "cathen le argent blanch
ambel ngutheluch", a chain of white silver about the throat; "sona le
bombech precios de nCathai", precious Cathayan silk girdle.
That's fairly exhaustive at this point.
Padraic.