Re: Conlang Journal and being a fish

On 19 Sept, Steg Belsky wrote:

>.Hebrew would be either "dag ani" or "ani dag", i'm not sure which one is
>.better.  You should probably ask Dan Sulani's kids about that :-)
Easy for _you_ to say; _I'm_ the one who has to
face the wrath of my offspring whose grade L
[for lousy, IMHO ;-)]
movie I dared to interrupt with a question!
(Hey! That's what the "pause" button is for, no?)   ;-)

Anyhow:
The usual word order is the second: |ani dag|.
My daughter's comment about when one might
use "dag ani" was:

    "Not unless you're Shakespeare! And then
it would be |dag anoxi| "

( |anoxi| being a more formal version of the
1st sing pronoun, from the
root "aleph-nun-chaf", signalling the idea of
perpendicular. [ AFAIK, the original Semitic
root  referred to the metal "lead";  from there
it was extended to "plumb-bob" and from there
to "plumb-line" and from there to "straight", especially
 "perpendicular" ]. The formality of the word comes,
AFAIK, from the idea of "drawing oneself
 straight up to one's full height, in an imposing manner,
when referring to oneself.")


    Anyhow, while I'm at it, the rtemmu for
"I am a fish" would be:


linakehs itihk auag wuh wuhbwuhb.

li = all can know about
na = speaker is subjectively changing at
           a "normal" rate
kehs = the "itihk" ("I") that all can objectively know
           about (can others know about a
           speaker's subjective state?)
           is changing at a "normal" rate
itihk =  the process of being 1st person singular
au- = assertion
ag = copula
auag =  an assertion that one's understanding should
            be expanded by combining the "wuhbwuhb"
            process to what is already in consideration
wuh = unknown rate of change (objective or subjective)
wuhbwuhb = the process of being a fish


Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a

A word is an awesome thing.