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Re: CHAT: t-shirt

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Thursday, September 28, 2000, 20:17
In Valdyan:

Ilaini runeseyt mustay: ilanea costay!

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

_Ilaini runesiyt_ is the object of _mustay_; what one is prompted to
fight is "languages will die". It's in the inceptive future, often
used for prophecies, only this time we want it not to happen, of
course :-)

_Costa_ is a new word from the Spare Roots File (which is,
unfortunately, running low; I'll have to run the word generator
again) meaning "to make out of nothing, to create, to invent". I did
have _fola_ "to make", but it means, specifically, "to make out of
something, to construct, to craft". Relevant enough in other
contexts, but not in this one.

I'll write and scan it in the Valdyan script one of these days: I do
have a font, but it's very badly kerned, and I haven't worked on that
since I stopped using Windows.

   Irina

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