Re: i gots uh kwesteon
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 1:43 |
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:51:23 -0500 (EST), <Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier>
<SMITHV637@...> wrote:
> i was wondering what lang. family ya'll think my conlang comes from?
>
> isk ekwih deriy dee kreetoll ops goethea omt dee eeth le dee
> marezhlitsvep
> isk bee'eenk enin dee hollm le tsvalhalmp ya unawba ekwih de grossagon
> omt ya anaya ekwih de grosfirntishtoo le dee etirnevp
>
> i is from the grey-island near goethia and the land of the horse-lords(.)
> i
> live in the city of tsvalholm(.) my father is a great-warrior and my
> mother is a great-tree-wizardessof the elves(.)
>
It an English relex.
The word |ekwih| is interesting. It looks like a case of hyper-centumism or
something -- from Armenain /eSt@/, of course.
Is |deriy| related to Eng "derive"?
The word |eeth| seems cognate with Eng "earth".
|dee| is disconcertingly close to Eng "the".
|bee'eenk| cogn "being"?
|enin| cogn "in"?
You have word-final |p|s in the source at every (.) in the translation, and
only in those locations. Maybe a clause-final realis clitic?
Argh.
Germanic, but not closely related to anything Germanic that I'm fluent in.
Derived from Gothic, perhaps? I'm having a hard time parsing it without an
interlinear. There are too many possible faux amis among your lexicon, or
maybe that's the results of my naturally Greenbergian brain?
Maybe it's a future form of English, mangled by German, Russian, French and
Alien speakers? The subject matter is distinctly non sci-fi, however.
Paul
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