Re: CHAT: t-shirt

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:

> In Valdyan:
>
> Ilaini runeseyt mustay: ilanea costay!
Spelling correction: it's _runesiyt_, not in the irrealis but in the
indicative future.

Or, I belatedly realize when looking up something else in the
dictionary,

Ilaini vilesiyt mustay (etcetera)

ilaini          vil.es.iyt        must.ay      ilanea         cost.ay
languages-nom-p perish.INC.FUT-3p fight.IMP-s  language-acc-s create.IMP-s

that is, the total destruction of languages. Nicole, and anyone
listening in, which do you prefer? _runa_ doesn't imply an outside
agency (it's a natural process), and _vila_ does, though the agency
can be internal (something destroying itself); _runa_ leaves
something behind (like a dead body) and _vila_ not necessarily.

I'm slightly biased towards _vila_ but only because I'm partial to
the letter V :-)

   Irina

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