Re: A Charyan Brothel Song in Teonaht

FFlores wrote:

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> > Hsvenda!  (Excellent!)
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> Is it related to _benda_?
Te, tehhyn! (yes indeed).  Hse is our superlative, so
hse myeebi, "reddest," hse benda, "best."  Contracted,
we get _hsvenda_ with a lenition of "b"; I am probably
remiss in translating "excellent," but we do give this
word for praise.

Issytra.

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> > Well.  This part a little more difficult it seems.
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> Yoda, what are you doing there? Did those Teonim
> kidnap you too, old man?
Definite contact with the Teonim Yoda has had, it seems! <G>
I.
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> > But here you do your own thing suitable to your own poem.
> > This Pantato, ai kwar tobre? (what is it?)
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> Pantato is a fossil language -- the first I created,
> not very good; I always promise myself I'll fix it,
> but I use it for borrowings only. I placed the island
> of Panta in my conworld near the old lands of the Dr=E1selhadh
> and made them friends. :) I only clarified the borrowing
> because _urth=E1l_ is unusually long for a Drasel=E9q word
> naming something as common as a hill.
Most interesting!
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> Thanks a lot for your appreciations. And again for the
> translation exercises -- I think they are probably the
> main reason of the advance Drasel=E9q has experienced
> these days (this goes for everybody!).
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> --Pablo Flores
It is our pleasure!  I, too, am grateful for all the
practice translating!  I.S.