Re: CHAT: t-shirt
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 4:07 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Suggestion: "We all speak a common language".
Not quite sure what this has to do with conlanging, but:
Nafsaggasagàniv sumitù. (Experimental orthography)
Naf- sagga- sagà -ni-v su-mitù.
Common-language-speak-we-hab G3-all.
The prefix naf- is used to make a noun be "common", "for everyone", thus
_wanafsaggà_, Common Language, _wanafdazlàsu_ (Common Blessing; a
blessing upon the entire community), _pinavvautá_, Common Cup, etc.
Instrumentals are usually incorporated in the noun, and language is
always put in the instrumental with sagà, thus _nafsaggasagà_, to speak
a/the common language.
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God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb
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