Re: Useful phrases for tourists

For Tourists Visiting Aluria:

> A beer please!
Vilish, b=EDheln!

(As with so many others, vilish isn't really beer, rather it's a sweet
punchlike drink.  An alternate beverage might be th=E9n=E4l, which is
relatively like green tea but cool, minty, and sweetened.)


> Where is the bathroom?
> Kinza ta djindjbir?
My=E1v=E1 lh=F4=F1 zh'=F9lm=E9dh?

(Lit. where is the bodily-relief-room.  =F9lm=E2 is a verb meaning to
relieve oneself)


> Don't shoot! I'm a tourist!
=D1e dl=E0sheln! Rr=F4 =E1ndz=E1l=F3v=E1!

(Don't kill (special, formally polite form)! I-am visitor!)


> I don't speak Aluric.
=D1e m=F3v =F1ev=E2 =E1lurhs=E1xn=E1.

(Lit. Not am-able to-speak by-means-of-aluric).



Tony Harris
Community College of Vermont
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