Re: Daily translation 9/28/2000 - catching up

From: "The Gray Wizard"

> English:   In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
Chí zçefübanalsíb ésh chau wenökrekhalörsaun seth lüv chö lísaugubsöt zhdrü
ebzçötüth.

Chí      zçefübanalsíb          ésh  chau   wenökrekhalörsaun
the shadow-postpostional about the quarreling-instrumental

seth                     lüv                        chö lísaugubsöt  zhdrü
ebzçötüth.
he/she/it  transcendent/universal-aux the essence-acc often lose.sight.of

"seth" plus an auxiliary ending in "-v" translates as the French "on" or
German "man". Transcendent, marked by the central "ü", indicates, among
other things, universal truths, making it good for proverbs. "Zhdra",
"often", is one of a fairly large handful of adverbs that agree with
auxiliary, whence its ending "zhdrü" here.

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