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Sleeping dragons and a new lang!

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 14:32
Siyo, kadlakayda!
Well, I'm going to attempt this translation, but it's
going to produce my longest words ever:
"Never tickle a sleeping dragon."
Emesolinesuwaliledosika domidlanahaliha.
E=2nd pers
meso="need"
line="no"
suwa="time"
lile="laugh"
dosi="touch"
ka=pres tense
domi="sleep"
dlana="great"
hali="lizard"
ha=accus sing

(I suppose this could be rendered "Emesoliledosika
domidlanahaliha linesuwani", "ni" meaning "in"--I
already have a similarly constructed word-- but I
don't like the idea of pulling the negation out of the
verb, and I don't have a word meaning "ever" to put
with my negative pronouns, and I don't really want
one, either.)

Also, I have the beginnings of a new conlang!  I call
it Kropja, which is short for -Cro-atian, -P-olish,
and -Y-iddish, the "flavors", the inspirations, of the
lang.  All I know is that it will inflect fairly
heavily and that I have the phonology and orthography
down.  BTW a word can begin with "zz"!  It's the sound
/Z/--my "z" acts like the Polish z and the English h
in digraphs.  I won't start serious work on this,
though, until I get Kayasanoda on the web and I can
install the word generator I downloaded onto someone's
computer.

Dana!
Clint

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