Re: The...the...

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:54:56PM +0100, R A Brown wrote:

> They were ablatives of 'difference of measure': "By what amount the
> crime is greater, by that amount the punishment is slower"
Wow!  Then I know how this would be translated in Mli Vjacgu, provided
there were actually any vocabulary to use :)

Mli Vjacgu (http://www.quandary.org/~langs/vjatjackwa) would use
tamy... dvy, being the relative pronoun and the distal demonstrative
pronoun, respectively, corresponding to "how much".

Let's see... So with the handful of words the language has, I could
possibly construct a sentence "Tamy ru vitjage, dvy ru lasja" - "So
much as he speaks, that much will he do".  Except I had planned to
have some sort of verb agreement, which is missing from the above.
I should have made notes...

Amanda