Re: Weekly Vocab 25 in Tok Inlis

In a message dated 2003:10:16 08:17:25 PM, Mathias (takatunu@FREE.FR) writes:

>J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
>
>    ::impressed with Tok Inlis:: I am workin' on & off on Inglitz (besides
>g0miileg0, of course). Imagine English mangled Berlitz Language Style!
>
>Inglitz = Ingliz + Berlitz...
>
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>
>Tankim yu a planti, yu pren wa mi. Yu i tokbak i rait samtin wi nais a
>planti taim u mi i rait mel a pas :-)
    sOOndz lIk ah plan

>A wepa (however) den a wataim da yu i mekluk sampis wa Tok Inglitz aim
>mipipol?
    Mangalang ;) Inglitz iz ahn "satirical tourist acrolect", hehe

>Mi i mek wantok dis a long wa wiken wi pas na i got sistembostok wi semlaik
>sistembostok wa wantok wa mi dis wi nada:
>
>u = who, that, which
>
>i = "he" (before the predicate) = do, be
>
>a = @, in, by, -ly--Example: a gut = good-ly = well
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>wa = u+a = of
>
>wi = u+i = who is/does = adjective
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>da = that (introducing the subclause to a verb)
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>dis = this (closing a subclause)
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>-im = suffix to a verb showing that the object is oblique
>
>Example:
>
>Mi raitim gal wa mi--I write to my girl
>
>Mi rait mel aim gal wa mi--I write a letter to my girl
    nEEt


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