Re: Translation exercize (Was Re: B-Sh has subject pronouns!)

 --- Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...> wrote: > Nihil Sum
 <nihilsum@...> 2002.09.16.

> > >"They killed him, because he knew everything."
> >
inspired by, i think, christophe's comment, i've
blatently nicked the sanskrt |iti| construction here :

Cawras licac Dawg tatasa lnicac Gop duwanr
/'tSaU4as ,lItSas 'daUg tatasa ,L\ItSatS 'gOp dUwa~4/

Car : do
Cawr : did
lic : s/he
licac/lnicac : he
Dag : die
Dawg : died
Gop : knows
duwar : entirety
dnuwanr : all things

|-as| is used to coordinate clauses, and |tat-a| is
used to nominalise reported speech/thought

so :

Cawr licac Dawg
they made him die/they killed him

licac Gop duwanr
he knows everything

Cawr licac Dawg tatasa licac Gop duwanr
they killed him 'he knows everything'ly

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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