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Crazy - translation exercise (was: aquamarine demon (was <no subject>))

From:Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...>
Date:Sunday, November 18, 2001, 0:11
> In a message dated 11/17/01 3:00:18 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes: > >Aquamarine Demon wrote: > >> >> Gesám ayi mozuká. Gesám dohíng mozuká. Gesám adohíng mozuká! > >> > >> "I'm crazy. You're crazy. We're all crazy!" > > > >Neat. :-) So, ayi = "I", dohíng = "you", adohíng = "we all"? > > Are those last two related? And do the other words mean "Be" and > > "crazy"? If so, which is which? > >
Assuming this is talking about a permanent state of being, then, in Kélen: la le mawanáwre; la rién mawanáwre; BE 1p crazy-person BE 2p.sg crazy-person la ñiéT anwanáwri; BE 1p-incl-pl crazy-people-COLL -- Sylvia Sotomayor sylvia1@ix.netcom.com wa jamú jániTa; (not.be thing.SG one-thing.SG) The Kélen language can be found at: http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html