Re: Mini translation excercise
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 15, 2002, 4:08 |
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:10:10 +0200, taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin@...> wrote:
>How do your languages deal with the following triplet:
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>-to go up to somewhere
>-to be up to someone
>-to be up to something
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>Take these sentences:
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> He went up to the mountain
>The matter is up to him now
> He is up to something
Tirelat has a single word with the meaning "up to": /ny/.
He went up to the mountain: j'lhúgalin ny róm.
The other uses of "up to" are odd English idioms that would have to be
rephrased: "the matter is his responsibility now" or some such thing.
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