Re: Weekly Vocab 11

yscreus il Christopher Wright <faceloran@J...>:

> The experience of dining outside the home. Oh,
> what joy.
> 1. restaurant
> Where might I find a good restaurant?
Dijounde yan tawern     boun / maboun?
at-where a   restaurant good / very good

Learners and L2 speakers tend to ask:

Dijounde yan rhestawrants       boun?
at-where a   sexual-restorative good?

The usual response is a laugh and a finger
pointed at "la pharmacea". Or else at "la casa
l' Armorow"!

> 2. food
> What sort of food would I find there?
Di ke   couisín? au forer, saviont   ke   atsa
of what cuisine? or to-be, know-they what is-she

il couisíns?
the cuisine?

You could also ask if the place is a "tawern
boun" or just a "pofínd". Tawern covers the range
of sit-down type restaurants; pofínd covers
various food stalls, handcart mongers and
purveyors in general. GITchore SAUSagesinnabun!

> 3. to order (food)
> "Do you know what you would like to order?"
Ke   t'   ar ty   chasant?
what thou on thou seeking

The waiter will ask:

Ke   perro   ti?
what for-the thee?

In a posh nosh, the waiter will ask:

Et per-el  mi nDon / -al mi nDawnea?
&  for-the milord  / the milady?

> 4. intestines, guts
> I almost lost my appetite [conculture:
> increased my appetite] when I
> saw the platter heaped with pig intestines.
Cooie!   Hos ce biont cez-y bondonnes!
Hoo-boy! _THAT_ is    some  goodies!

I.e., "now _that_ is good eatin!"

But only in America! In Europe, a Kerno speaker
would probably say:

lê  billet, si plas!
the check,  if please(-thee)!

when presented with a heap o chitterlings.

> 5. salad
> I ordered a plain salad with water.
Rhuasi mi yan ensalát simple, con  d' acoua.
asked  I  a   salad   plain   with of water

> 6. waiter
> The waiter looked at me disdainfully.
Oi!   Ne  meziodemspextasot-me           yock,
Hear! Not half-down-to-me-looked-(at)-me not,

ce   jowencks!
that waiter!

Chalk up "yock" as yet another negative adverb!
Jowencks is also "manservant". Ne mezio- plus a
verb answers to the English idiom "don't half".

> 7. to bring
> He brought me what I asked for, though the
> servings were small.
Dontetulis    ke   rhuasi;  mays, mabeck
do-me-brought what asked-I; but,  quite-small

ils unil!
the bits!

> 8. hungry
> Since I am still hungry, perhaps I'll go to
> another restaurant.
Gouerseque domays   la  famès,
because    to-me-is the hunger

pergouenz gouazuram  me lis         cen
perhaps   (will)-hie me to-the-some or-other

ndawern    l'  altra.
restaurant the other

I forget how gouerseque and perhouenz break down,
but they are compounds. Pergouenz is like
perchance, but with a different component.

> 9. to belch
> On the way, I belched loudly.
'N       ystraz, fió    yen helo  Zawzèn.
in-(the) street, made-I a   hello English

> 10. to stare
> Several people stared oddly at me.
Dowedhuont-mi  y-ces    clanedó.
stared-(at)-me the-some folk

Padraic.


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