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Re: The "If you call me insane again..." page, at long last!

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, July 22, 2001, 23:06
>On 21 July, Dan Seriff wrote: > >>Some of you may remember several months ago, when several people >>translated the phrase "If you call me insane again, I'll eat your other >>eye." (which was in my .sig file at the time) into their own languages. >>Well, I've finally gotten the time and motivation to webify it, and it's >>up! It's at >>"http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/language/insane.html">. Check it >>out, and submit your traslations.
Bahasa Indonesia: Kalau kamu sebut saya gila sekali lagi, akan makan matamu yang lain! Non-native, of course; but not too bookish I think. Follows the English word order quite closely. Of note: se-kali 'one-time', lagi 'more, again'; pronoun 'I' unnecessary in the 2nd clause; akan 'future tense marker', mata-mu 'eye-your', yang 'relative marker', lain 'other'. (kamu and -mu are familiar forms; the {e}'s in this case are all [@] )