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Re: Valentine's Day Translation

From:Denis M. Moskowitz <dmm@...>
Date:Thursday, February 11, 1999, 15:07
[Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>]
> In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I'd ask for a translation of "I > love you".
Rikchik: This uses the new word "Love", which is not up on the site yet, but it looks like, um, this: | O | _| |_ _____ / \ Sort of. Anyway, there's still no word for "You", so you'd say Me-Agent-R-0 Human-Patient-R-0 Love-End-V-2 to a human, or Me-Agent-R-0 Rikchik-Patient-R-0 Love-End-V-2 to a rikchik, and let the watcher or reader infer you're talking about them. Or you could specify their name: as in Japanese, it's not uncommon to refer to someone you're talking to by name. Interestingly, "Love" is also used to mean "is gravitationally attracted to". Planets love the sun. Playing with human customs, some rikchiks give each other heart-shaped boxes of rose quartz stones as valentine's candy. -- Denis M Moskowitz Happy-Result-N-0 God-Quality-N-1 Human-End-R-1 dmm@cs.hmc.edu Human-Source-R-0P Rikchik-Agent-N-0 Talk-End-I-2 <a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmm/dmm.html">My WWW page</a> <a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmm/rikchik/intro.html">Rikchik Language</a>