Weekly Vocab #4.1.2 (repost #1)

Last posted: January 23rd, 2004

> From: takatunu <takatunu@...>
>
> This weak I made 4 different batches as variations on one theme. I guess I
> made a few English mistakes but I hope they are not to confusing.
>
> Easy ones:
>
> Please write to your friend in this room and with this pen an essay about
> your conlang in your script but in English.
> I baked the dough and the cake was soon baked.
> This bottle was filled with wine and that other one was full of water.
> Now both are empty so please refill them.
>
> How Perceptive!:
>
> Let me smell your flowers.
> Can you smell them?
> This flower smells of honey.
> Flowers perfume the room with a heady scent.
> When I look at you I see your father.
> I tasted the grilled cricket and it tastes like chicken.
> The snow-capped top appeared through the clouds.
> My vision of the mountain is blurred like your vision of life is.
> I am obsessed by her thought.
> You look lost in your thoughts.
>
> Tropism:
>
> Our victory is your defeat.
> My blow causes, and results in, your injury.
> Your injury results from my blow.
> I love you although you smell.
> You smell but I still love you.
> I'll accept if you beg me.
> Your begging to me shall condition my acceptance.
>
> Bases:
>
> The skulls hung dangling from the heavy pillars on which the thatched roof
> rested.
> Modern art--I pegged a chairleg into the trunk of a tree stemming from a
> pole.
Bonus Vocab from WordNet:
This is randomly selected automatically, so in case it offends you
or you disagree, please either ignore or be inspired to make up
different words and/or phrases:

  - Waite, n.
    United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States
    Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888)

  - foliate, v.
    coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass"

Fiant verba!

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