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Re: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

From:Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
Date:Thursday, August 12, 2004, 6:21
Trebor Jung wrote:

>How would your conlang(s) translate this? The primary obstacle, to me, for >translating of this sentence into Kosi is that I can't seem to figure out >what 'by' means here...
Brom löösis'na otok' sic' plokin dlodofladve k'azma. mountain(-ACC) remove-3SG-REL man small stones-ACC away-carry-GER begin-3SG The -GER is a form I've been calling the adverbial gerund (that's probably incorrect). It links two verbs much like the Japanese -te form -- which is where I ripped it off from. Pretty basic. Wish I had something more exotic to show in this example. M