Re: trans: ugliness and sobriety
| From: | Mark Hutchinson <hutchies@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 17:30 |
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> "I may be drunk, but tommorow I shall be sober, and you will still > be ugly. "
In Elé = 'Yêé adé kéthakes, dédo; Dêa teleneie daié, yêié iedes, da
kelàýaiû Sàreýt lêai.'
be+1s good+NEG+ADJ joy+water+INCL, maybe; But day+LOC two+ADJ, be+FUT+1s it+ABS, and
end+CAUS+2s Spring+ACC CONT
literally - 'I am badly with [the] joywater, maybe; but at the second day, I will be
without it, and you will continue to stifle Spring.'
(Nb: 'to stifle Spring' means 'to be ugly'; it's a long story :-) )
'hutchies'
Andalath-oi i-phailén! [Iéraith]
Ghe'o mpodag pa' che'! [Khâche']
Yeses kéthes! [Elé]
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