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Re: shopping list's too long...

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Monday, November 30, 1998, 22:08
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Andrew Smith wrote:

> I don't translate passages out of written works very often, although I > would like to have a go at the short chapter in "The Romulan Way" by Diane > Duane on Romulan Elemental Religion. When I have access to a video I like > to stop movies so I can copy down the subtitles so I can work on them > later.
I suppose this is Star Trek?
> > The musical list is still sitting in my hard drive, Padriac. I must give > it another look over. I remember thinking at the time it had a kernu accent, > but I would have to look at it again.
Well, I should hope some of it would! As there was a list in Kernu, and a list in Brithenig. I tried _desperately_ not to mix the two; but seems I shall never shake that dialect business.
> > There are a lot more than those three queries, but I will go and look up > my usual sources and come back and frighten people.
I figured -- a shopping list with _only_ lettuce, vegemite, weet-bix and salami is what's frightening!!
> > Haven't started dreaming in Brithenig, yet. >
I did the other night. I recall standing before this big chalk board trying to teach this little girl how to speak (and write) B. I recall that the lesson dealt with boys singing to their cats. Not the first time I've had constructed dreams. ;-) Padraic.
> - andrew. >