Re: Challenge to puzzle-lovers: Vampire dialogue from "Blade"

Nik Taylor wrote:
> Modifiers generally seem to preceed their heads, except in Redan Proto,
> but that may be a fixed form
Actually, several seeming counter-examples.  Okay, we have:

busistam-pol prot-o l-ukcha-n-o = nation-dat blood-gen drinkers-gen
Yacht-u spul-i = Peace-of Document-acc
o-ranta o-rastu = human politicians (or politicans human)
Umfalat Poskani = Race pure (or Pure Race)
Pala Tat = Trouble Enough (or Enough Trouble)
Redan-i Prot-o = God-acc Blood-gen
Sizn-u praga u-mporta (u-mpunuwa) = Twelve-gen of.the spirits
slaughtered (slaughtered spirits?)

Hmmm .... Okay, got it, modifiers *follow* the head.  Except in the
fixed phrases:
Prot-o ukcha-n = Blood-gen drink-one.who = Vampire
Yacht-u spul = Peace-gen Document = Treaty
And the last sentence is in Archaic Vampiric

Thus:
Ranta = politician and Rastu = human
Pala = Trouble and Tat = Enough

Possible alternatives for 5 and 7:

Umfalat poskan-i   krat kodobranku, chahaz kalinka    paskoldzo
Would?  this  -acc you  understand, if?    your-blood be.pure
Maybe, chahaz indicates counterfactual, while _kalinka_ consists of a
prefix for "your" and a word meaning "blood" in the sense of "racial
composition"

Redan-i   prot -o   u -chanu  sizn  -u   praga umporta umpanuwa
God  -acc blood-gen pl-spirit twelve-gen will  awaken  ?

Which may mean that _prakaritsa_ is actually _praka ritsa_ = praka/praga
possibly being the same form, one of them being a mistake, and _ritsa_ =
make difficult

Maybe -a indicates not first person plural, but simply "plural subject"?

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