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Re: latin verbs and rokbeigalmki curses

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Saturday, January 15, 2000, 2:02
Am 01/14 15:58  Steg Belsky yscrifef:
> i also finally "canonized" my first rokbeigalmki "offensive" curse, > _shahhwa_ /'SaHwa/. it's not offensive because it means anything > "dirty", like most English curses. it's a blurring of the word > _sha'hawa_ /Saha?wa/, which means roughly an accusative-case (direct > object) form of "what". it seems that in Rokbeigalm culture, even though
I actually found myself saying Brithenig "Ke gos!", What! when several things happened at once. It seems code switching into constructed languages is not impossible, exclamations, at least. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen Doon on your knees and up agen." "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend; Sit ye doon on mon's chief end." - Attributions unknown.