Re: Gray/Grey, conscripts, 'conlang', etc.

alrivera@southern.edu writes:
>I have used (and generally do use) 'Mukaic' for 'Muke.'
>My "real" first name has an English adjective already; "Angel" >
>"Angelic".
>(rrrgh..)
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Hmm, well my name, if we play the adjective game with it comes out as:

Barryic, Barryan (sounds close to Barium), Barryite
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>Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...> sez:
>> (I learned Swedish in Uppsala.)
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>This is irrelevant, but that's the coolest sentence I've heard all day.
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>In Kaðuhhan (borrowing 'Uppsala' directly, and 'Sweden') it'd be something
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>ðuhan-caððy  di-Suiddensy ruk-tan-terella-tasty  upsalla-sa-hai.
>Language.acc gen.Sweden   1sg.perf.Learn.vb.past Uppsala.ess.ad
>'Language of Sweden, I learned at Uppsala.'
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Oooh......i think i'll try this :)

Dereliman esan yu Swidis ka Upsala
learned.actor-focus   I  subj.marker  Swedish  in Uppsala

In this example, i am talking about myself, which is why the actor focus
is used. If  I want to "highlight" Swedish, I would use the object focus
(replace '-an' with '-in')

or:

Derelimak esan yu Upsala as Swidis.
learned.loc-focus  I  subj.marker  Uppsala   non-subj.marker   Swedish

In this example, Upsala takes the subject marker because i'm focusing on
where I learned Swedish (well I don't know a word of swedish, but...)
Literally it means "I learned in Uppsala, Swedish", but a loose
translation makes it mean pretty much the same as the above. I could have
placed "Swidis" before "Upsala", but traditionally, whatever takes the
subject marker is placed before whatever takes the non-subject marker. The
meaning would not change, however.




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