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Re: Insults was (Re: Fw: translation needed)

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Sunday, October 24, 1999, 21:57
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

> tb0pwd1@corn.cso.niu.edu writes: > > --Vilamo Baleko > > ha, that could actually say something in Tilon Nevo. Both would be nouns, > and at least the last name means "place of existence". Don't have 'vil' as > a root for anything though, but '-am-' means 'one who is' IIRC.
It's just my way of transliterating William Blake. ;) They have to end in -o because they're animate nouns. It's cool that Blake's name means something in your language, though. Oh, and the /v/ is a voiced bilabial fricative.