Re: Bastet Relay Translation Web Finally Up!!

On Wed, 30 May 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> I'll be more than willing to expound at great lengths what simple
> constructs in my conlang means... either to the benefit or detriment of
> actually understanding it :-P
Heh--whomever goes after me will have to deal with the fact that gender
can change the meaning of a word.

/?Ek-pjEk-@/  literally: "do-thing-def. art." (masculine), "the weapon".
/?Ek-pjEk-r/  literally: "do-thing-def. art." (feminine), "the tool".
/?Ek-pjEk-os/ literally: "do-thing-def. art." (wrong), "the broken item"
/?Ek-pjEk-Is/ literally: "do-thing_def. art." (foreign), "the trinket" or
"the useless item"


I could see some poor high-schooler in the USA forgetting the genders and
translating every instance as "tool".

"Now you've done it.  You've made my tool into a tool."

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