Re: THEORY: Trans. excercise! (was: Re(2): THEORY: Natural language change)

If you can understand this, you know too much.

epe hane nelomashoa  pazhepizha ze, oepe hane nelobizha nepete.
if  you  you.it.be-clever to-through-know this(I), then you you.it.know
too-much.

E = emphatic
I = inanimate

epe = if (epe must be followed by "than", oepe, in the standard dialect)

hane = you (optional)

ne-lo-mashoa = you are clever to . . . it (an idiom meaning "to be able,"
essentially; only finite verbs in hatasoe can take prefixes, which is why
the -lo- , objective inanimate prefix corresponding to "ze", is here and
not on the next word)

pazhebizha = to understand (literally "to know throughout")

ze = this (inanimate)

bizha = to know (a fact, not a person)

nepete = too much, excess, an inanimate noun and also the polite way to
refuse a second helping.

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Now, it's back to Auden and the rigors of grad school.  BTW, I'm proud to
announce that I did not have to invent a single word to translate this
sentence!

--Patrick