Re: TRANS: Happiness
From: | William Annis <annis@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 21, 2001, 2:00 |
>"To find happiness, one should not seek it."
This is interesting in Vaior. "Find" is derived from "seek,"
sort of like it is in Chinese (zhao-dao). Where Chinese uses verbal
complements, Vaior has a suffix indicating the successful completion
of the goal of an action.
"On dauchandavatuvo inna sintisan, aron lu dauchanhiro."
on dauch-andav-atuv-o inna sintis-an, aron lu dauch-anhir-o.
if seek-SUCCESS-WANT-PRES 3g happiness-ACC then not seek-MUST-PRES
inna = English 'one', French 'on' or German 'mann.' I don't recall at
the moment what the best name for that sort of pronoun is. Here, I
called it "3rd general."
--
wm
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