Re: CHAT: Happy Birthday (was Re: Re: Uglossia and Utopia)

On 26 Sep, 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:

>On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>
>> You all are youngsters. I turned 33 on Sep 1. :-)
>>
>Careful Sylvia, you and I may be of an age (Nov 12), but the true
>patriarchs and matriarchs of this list have not yet spoken
Alright you young whippersnappers <cough, wheeze>  :-)
I  still feel young at heart, even if that heart is 51 years old!

Anyhow, how to say "Happy Birthday" in rtemmu.

Offhand, I think it would be:

va'i inawuh mhu rasna ranashhe sisuna shyeo`gziyu auag na ygiha.

= I consider and wish that your remembering of existence-beginning should be
happy.

( o` = [O], open mid back rounded vowel)
va'i = emotive particle
inawuh = the speaker who is changing normally and who can't be sure
                of your subjective rate of change
mhu = you
ras = repetitive (done once every cycle: yearly is understood here)
na = subjectively normal change
ranash = memory
-he = with respect to
sisu =  others' past
shye = existence;  o`g = compounding morpheme;  ziyu = begin
           = existence-begin = birth
auag = assertion
na ygiha = subjectively normal changing happy

This essentially says that you are wished a subjectively happy birthday.
If the wish was for an objectively happy birthday, the end would be
"kehs ygiha". To wish both, one would have to use -yiye- to connect
the rate-markers:  "nayiyekehs ygiha".

Dan Sulani


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