Re: Memberlang Pages

In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990117213913.1272A-100000@...>,
Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> writes
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, John Fisher wrote:
>
>> Just as a starter, here's a paragraph which might contain a few
>> problemettes:
>>
>> FLIGHT
>
>(slight snippage)
>
>> after the custom of the North.
>
>It strikes me that one problemette in rendering this, is regarding customs
>and norms of this sort.  Two ways of rendering this phrase can be (in
>Kernu): commy chomrews (in the fashion of the Comroig), when the style is
>eccentric but not truly outlandish; commy h-alben (in the fashion of the
>Scots), if the style is quite strange.  Everyone else in the world is a
>Bloody Foreigner, and their bizare fashions may be described with commys
>tourcces (it's a bit Turkish).  In other words, it might be nice to know a
>bit about the two implied cultures: the narrator's and the prophet's; and
>how odd crowblack hair is.
I couldn't really say...  Couldn't your Kernu speaker be telling a
story?  After all, I was.  Hair isn't dyed black in the North in my
culture either.  I just wanted to include the structure

   dye hair black

and see how people would put that in their grammars...  Then I added

   -er than a crow

to see how people did comparatives.  Actually I think my paragraph might
be a bit too complex for a basic example of a language, which is what
was asked for for the Memberlang pages, but it might be nice to
accumulate a set of short texts for translation which people could use
to exercise their languages, and I suppose this was a suggestion for
that.
>
>A neat story, though, and I'll definately work on it!
Good luck.  I haven't done an Elet Anta version yet...

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