Re: Ethnologue exercise (was: Conlang StandardLanguagesv.Dialects)

In a message dated 2000:08:29 5:46:55 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:

>Shreyas Sampat wrote:
>
>> saha ya, Viaeti sene casiiho.
>> Ri uli insult: You don't look very edible today.
>
>That's an insult?  Why do people *want* to look edible in that culture?
>
    An anachronism from the time when they were cannibals?  hehe

    czHANg

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