Re: TRANS: love is the law
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 9, 2000, 6:30 |
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:24:04 -0500, Ajin-Kwai <wpii@...> wrote:
>With the recent flurry of TRANS messages, and the discussion of
>copula-less languages, I thought it might be interesting to see how others
>would translate this into conlangs. When I came across this a while ago,
>it truly fit the draqa way, and I wanted to translate, but ran into the
>copular problem... Anyway:
>
>"Love is the Law"
Jarrda has more than one equivalent for all three words "love", "is", and
"law". I assume you don't mean "Romantic attraction is the same thing as a
threat of retaliation", but something more like "Affection has the quality
of being a standard".
In which case, it becomes
te tos- ma jag
is love-ERG rule-ABS
Jarrda "te" is a *transitive* verb meaning "has the quality of being". It's
more like the "tener" in "tener razón" than a copula. Quite a useful little
word.
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