Re: TRANS.: nat-&-conlang "googolgigglabyte"

On 14 July, J Y S Czhang wrote:

> HiYa conlang peeps *
>     For my "translations listing" of _googolgigglabyte_ in one of my
> sig.lines, so far I have:
>
> googolgigglabyte    goegolgiechelbijt       googolriderbyte
> googolspassoctet
> ^ English           ^Dutch              ^Interlingua (?)        ^Italian,
> slang version
>
>     I would like a bunch more natlang, auxlang and conlang "specimens" to
> display/show-off ;)
Well, in rtemmu, it could be: (Please remove all chewing gum from your mouth
and swallow your saliva!   ;-)   ):

tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk  go`go`o`gwgaga

(tuktuk-t'i-shushukuk-o`g-tuk  go`go`-o`g-wgaga)


o` = [O];  ' = glotttal stop; sh = [S];

tuktuk = 2 (base 8; in rtemmu numbers have different names in base 10 and in
                  base 8)
t'i = to the power of
shushukuk = 8 (base 8)
o`g = compounding particle
tuk = 1 (base 8)

thus

tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk  = byte ( 2 to the power of 8 as a unitary
process)

go`go` = googol (I confess: I just made up this word; chose the phonology to
                       fit in with the overall "music" of the phrase ;-)  )


wgaga =  the process of giggling

    Of course, all that is without the rate-of-change marker! It should
probably be "subjective", but at what rate? Let's use an accelerating
fast rate of change, |utne| and we'll also need to stress that it is an
emotional exclamation, thus putting |va'i| ahead of the whole thing.

    So, for _googolgigglabyte_  as a crazed byte of mind-giggle:


va'i utne tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk  go`go`o`gwgaga!

Dan Sulani
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